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YOUNGSTERS DESERVED FUN … AND DIDN’T BREAK RULES

IT WILL probably come as no surprise to you to learn that I’ve put my nightclubbing days behind me. As a mother-of-two and a GP in her 40s, I wasn’t among the revellers dancing the night away last week, after clubs were allowed to reopen.

If I were 21 again, would I have been there? Perhaps. Do I think it was possibly not the wisest of things to be doing right now? Maybe. But I certainly wasn’t going to join in the tutting and judging that seemed to go on endlessly on social media.

In fact I found it quite sad, and reflective of the meanminded, net-curtain-twitching attitude that seems to have become worryingly commonplace over the past year.

Younger people have been affected disproportionately by the pandemic. Their education has been stunted. They’ve lost their jobs and seen their finances decimated.

They have also opted, in their millions, to be vaccinated against a virus that’s unlikely to harm them. And once vaccine passports come into force, anyone wanting to go clubbing will need to have had a jab.

Just to be clear: they were breaking no rules last week. They can’t be blamed for living their lives, or for the pandemic.

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