When the easing of lockdown finally arrived there was much dithering and mixed messaging from the government in some specific areas. In particular there was confusion about the rules for older people. Ironically those people who had been fit  enough to reach the biblical old age of three score years and ten were referred to as “old and vulnerable”. But this was an issue full of confusion with a survey at the time showing that 50% of people did not know precisely to whom  the new easing of lockdown regulations would apply:

It was mooted that while lockdown would end for the rest of the country it might continue for the over 70’s and I feared that the following nightmare might become a reality: