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Originally Posted by jfman
It's inevitable until we put in place a serious, and competent test, trace and isolate system.
Face masks and quarantining those coming in from overseas are months too late but we got there. Maybe by 100,000 deaths we will start taking this seriously.
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Whatever the shortcomings of our official response, they were absolutely right on one point. At the outset, the need to maintain public support for the lockdown was cited as a reason for not imposing it too soon. The behaviour of far too many complete fools over the last couple of weeks have borne out that official concern with how compliant the British public is likely to be in situations like this. In my own locality, the police, council and national park officials have had to deploy fairly extreme measures to control the crowds who flocked to the countryside outside Glasgow last weekend. Some of the scenes we have personally witnessed over the last week have been totally depressing.