AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Seems like you're reaching for a more fundamental issue with the societal pact and its ability to deal with crisis situations- and going by your points, the lockdown was inevitably doomed.
Yup, I think it is fundamentally doomed unless you go for draconian enforcement and punishment- see my edited post on the bit about fear. There is no longer much fear about COVID (especially among some segment of the population) - and in part because we are successful in limiting the hump. And even if we aren't, I suspect a chunk of the population still wouldn't give a damn (see the public behaviour down south even with the number of cases skyrocketing). Now when the second wave arrives with significant community transmission and the atmosphere of fear reemerges, people will go back to cocooning.
Proper individual response to crisis situations requires the feeling of being at risk- and when I look outside I can totally understand why it doesn't work well - nice sunny hot summer days with no visible sign of ongoing contagion? That's like a phoney war. Now if you fake the stats, keep on announcing that cases never went down and are currently rising, you can probably do it - but that's an unthinkable violation of public trust - not a rabbit hole one should go down into.
Social ostracization and pressure would have worked elsewhere - but this isn't a country where it would be effective.
AoD
Last edited: