Quote Originally Posted by tell it like it is View Post
Yet Imperial College London report claimed we got out timings right.

IMO, if lockdown had been ordered day 1, there would have been mass protests and disobedience. Instead it's been recommended to stay home - as people have then abused it, it's been "locked down". I suspect most Brits will accept that given the "nice" approach being abused. Some will always disobey.
That isn't the timeline, there was a period of time where there were no restrictions and the government wouldn't even give advice around contact reducing measures.

For a few weeks their whole schtick was to go on telly looking like a bunch of gimps telling everybody that if they washed their hands everything would be fine. Then they got some scary data and decided to tell everybody their grandparents would die. After they pivoted to some level of suppression and within a few days we had a lockdown.

Everything could have been done sooner and less erratically.

Justifying the course of action taken with this crystal ball shite about riots is just desperate.