Western governments in recent years have been increasing the pension age so that we will all have to work longer. Thousands around us are ignoring corona guidelines, effectively decreasing the life-expectancy of pensioners.

Let us reduce the pension age again, to 60 or even 55. At the rate we are going, many are not going to live much beyond that except in (not so) splendid isolation. Let us enjoy the decreasing number of senior years we have left; the desire to party and go on holiday is not limited to the young.

Naturally, once we are gone and forgotten, the younger generations now should have a similar time limit imposed on their senior years. Of course, the next pandemic might take care of that anyway.