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Originally Posted by Chris
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.
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The counter argument being that an earlier lockdown would have saved thousands of lives and infections. If lockdowns inevitably fail because people get bored, or the state media gushes over VE Day street parties, then the thousands of lives lost prior are for nothing anyway if unable to develop a functioning track, trace, isolate system in that time.
The only reason to delay would be if you genuinely believed the infections caused before would yield significant immunity to slow later spread. None of the large scale antibody testing (anywhere in the world) indicate this being likely.