Odd thing about the UK lockdown is the compliance rate was pretty fucking good and it remained fairly well supported, the dreaded behavioural fatigue not kicking in... until this week of press briefings and patriotism.

Without the confusing comms and sanctioned flag-waving, I strongly suspect this lockdown would have been sustainable for quite some time longer, but that's all for nothing now.

For all this talk promising some sort of deescalation, it's formed an expectation of deescalation which previously wasn't there, or was barely there. There's going to be far less adherence across the board now, regardless of how little changes.

And the new shitty stay alert slogan isn't helping with those built in "alert levels"; it's going to be a hot mess trying to explain to people what they should be doing, let alone giving them a reason to understand why we're doing it and they need to, too.

Its highly sus that the new Stay Alert level has a level 5 alert built into it, when we've supposedly been on level 4. What's level 5 alertness threat? How much bigger than 30,000 hospital deaths?????

The uk lockdown was, until this weeks comms and sanctioned bunting, pretty sustainable long-term in terms of compliance and support, which was good because it *needs* to be a lot longer due to poor test and trace infrastructure and a still-fairly-high number of cases.

So I am fucking FURIOUS that this week they decided to just piss away all the good work, and it's going to be really difficult to get compliance back up again.

I beg absolutely everybody who went to a street party this weekend to quarantine for two weeks and keep the inevitable bump in cases and deaths to a minimum

It's a GOOD thing that in the face of soft touch lockdown people made a healthy choice, and it's horrifying the government has decided to squander this progress. https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1259407085529370624?s=19

Please join a union if you're not in one already, everyone. The government has no interest in keeping workers safe.