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“lockdown fatigue" is a real thing.
Citation needed!
Alongside epidemiological advice, one of the things that the
government was told was "don't implement lockdown too early, because
people will only comply for so long”This was debunked. It came from government and Whitty, not the behavioural advisors.
Whitty cited his experience of patients and antibiotic courses. It didn’t come from the behavioural studies because they don’t support the idea.
miro_o
ffm
I agree to the extent that past experience tells us that rapid, imperfect action is often better than slow-but-perfect action in these instances, but it's really important to remember that (i) for all our talk of the blitz spirit we are a fairly liberal-inclined country that value our freedom and therefore police enforcement would only work to the degree that we consent to it, and (ii) even for those of us that are more likely to fall in line with government guidelines (myself included) "lockdown fatigue" is a real thing. Alongside epidemiological advice, one of the things that the government was told was "don't implement lockdown too early, because people will only comply for so long". What we're seeing right now is exactly that; the government guidelines are lagging slightly behind what people are already doing.