MayBee, it became quite obvious even on GN that in the UK and other places, many people do not ‘do’ mandatory. They see it as an infringement of their human rights and drag up conspiracy theories and other reasons why they should not cooperate. e.g. they don’t like the political party in power, his hair is a mess, and I even heard, “It’s not fair” given as a reason.
Strangely enough, I’m not defending BJ.
I thought some things could have been done a different way at the time, and that’s without the ‘what I would have done’ benefit of hindsight.
I agree with you that it should have been mandatory, but how to make it mandatory?
In the UK, if people don’t like something they’ve been told to do, they don’t just refuse to do it, they hold peaceful meetings called riots to protest. They injure the police who are there to impose the rule. They side with the mother, fined for breaking a rule and demand a let off and an apology.
I watched NZ. Their lockdown was better than ours, smaller country, fewer opportunities for cross contamination, but again depended on the cooperation of the population.
I was impressed by the information in this link
coronavirusexplained.ukri.org/en/article/pub0003/
Yes, the governments there acted-not soon enough to stop the virus getting out in the first place, but the population presumably obeyed.
Here, obedience is not the norm for many.
Even on GN posters talked about what they see as the ‘*right*’ thing to do.
So how does this, or any UK government make it mandatory?
Arm the police? What do you think would happen?
Make fines compulsory and ignore the cries of ‘I can’t afford it?’
I’d really like to know what you think could be done to make mandatory happen. It would be useful to know not just now, but for future governments.
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