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Big issue with subsequent lockdowns of greater severity is that huge swathes of the country don’t give a fuck anymore, and the fear inducing rhetoric of March was a one trick pony.
Not sure this is true. Hackney hasn't exactly been a bastion of rule following and social distancing but I've actually been surprised how much people are staying at home and not mixing. Our road was dead on NYE apart from everyone setting of fireworks from their gardens at midnight and when I speak to people they seem to realise how bad it is and are bunkering down.
The Met said about London more widely on NYE that they were expecting to have to deal with more violations than they did.
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Big issue with subsequent lockdowns of greater severity is that huge swathes of the country don’t give a fuck anymore, and the fear inducing rhetoric of March was a one trick pony. I guess they could try enforcement but the police services are so hollowed out that probably won’t work either.
Time will tell what approach is the right one for western democracies where you can’t enforce behaviour like you can in places like China. Maybe the USA have the least damaging strategy at a macro level, taking all the deaths as early as possible and disrupting their economy/way of life the least?