At this time catching the disease did not appear to be too worrying. The only symptoms were a dry cough and a fever leading to a few days of mild discomfort. The only people that appeared to be at any kind of serious risk were the very old and even then they would receive the required hospital treatment well in advance of the feared future shortage of beds should the pandemic gather pace and even then they would benefit from immunity from future infection which was the orthodox view back then. So when Jeremy Corbyn asserted that he would not comply with any government edict requiring the over 70’s to stay at home I thought he was following the same logic: And this cartoon never saw the light of day as I could find no reference to Jeremy repeating his declaration! The reason I identified with this logic and genuinely had these thoughts was that I had tickets for Cheltenham .... For further comment go to Cheltenham