People are dumb. It's not new information, if the government had been clear in it's messaging and implemented the necessary restrictions then things would be a lot better than they are now. If you give people an inch they're going to take a mile, the fact that none of those people are actually breaking the law says it all. They've been allowed to decide for themselves and it's madness when it's a public health concern rather than an individual one.
Yeah, when people don’t see their actions directly negatively effecting the situation, they’ll carry on, unless ordered not to.
The problem with the virus is you may be asymptomatic and have passed it on to plenty in a supermarket/pub/on the train where you’ve been touching the surfaces and indirectly killed dozens, or you may be completely fine and effected no one. The problem is it’s impossible to measure that, and there’s no culpability to the damage you could have done.
Whilst people can still live their lives and feel like they’re not contributing to the pandemic because they’ve got no symptoms, this’ll continue.
We need to take the measures that Italy are. It won’t be until 3-4 weeks time when those who were blasé during the last couple weeks start to realise that they played a part in this when the death numbers spiral