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All this stuff about 'permission', 'behavioural science' and 'were not South Korea' is bollocks.
I'm sure you know this, but South Korea has been on a permanent war footing since the 50s. Their people literally live in fear of invasion from the North - they do what their government tells them. They have mandatory male conscription and 15% of their huge GDP is spent on defence. They've had a coup d'etat in living memory. They've also benefitted from experience of SARS and being inclose proximity to nations that has also had previous experience.
We can't magic this in to the national psyche.
Real leaders lead in a time of crisis. You can't fucking focus group a response.
Yeah I agree but in a fight between a government and 60m disinterested people, guess who wins? Unless the army comes out but by that time you've already lost.
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All this stuff about 'permission', 'behavioural science' and 'were not South Korea' is bollocks.
Real leaders lead in a time of crisis. You can't fucking focus group a response.
What we have seen to date is that the government have been slow to understand the scale of it, and have had to ditch their initial public health and economic strategy. They are getting somewhere on the economy, but still haven't intervened strongly enough or communicated clearly enough on public health.