Originally Posted by
KerrAvon
It will be unpopular with some posters for me to make this observation, but I think there was something in what the UK government said when they asserted that bringing controls in too early would simply lead to them being disregarded.
Johnson caught attention with his 'loved ones will die' comment, but people have forgotten it already. It's unsurprising, I suppose - what we are being asked to do is difficult; I had an arrangement to meet some chums for beer tomorrow and it annoyed me to cancel, even though we all knew it made perfect sense to do so.
With panic buying, the fear of missing out kicks in. People who understand that it is stupid see stories of shelves being cleared and so join in for fear of being left to go hungry if they resist the urge.
The next stage in the UK will be enforced lockdowns and travel restrictions. On Twitter, which I foolishly started to use a few weeks ago, some of the same people who complained about government 'inactivity' are now complaining about government 'fascism'. It would be funny under other circumstances.
Stay safe, folks.
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