I don't fully understand the UK concept. It's perfectly fine to have a model you operate after, and that you don't implement lockdowns until it reaches a certain point, but everyone behaving as everything is perfectly fine until you reach that point ? It's like driving at 190mph towards a brick road and you're supposed to break just as you hit it. It's not like medical experts weren't behind the decisions being made in Norway either, didn't take long for them to admit they were wrong and that measures should've been implemented earlier. A friend of mine is a doctor, and they obviously have their message boards over social media, it went rather quickly from "it's important to trust the work that's being done, they have their reasons" to "there's no proper plan in motion for any of this", when everyone fully agrees with the open letter from Gilbert, Gisvold and Holt you know there's a big issue. In less than 2 days we went from no measures to close to a full lockdown, and people still aren't respecting the restrictions. Most of the emergency calls over the weekend has been morons stuck in their cabins at the mountain feeling ill, which was the exact thing people were told not to do, we're being forced to introduce emergency laws as a result...
Reduce as much of your social life as you can in an attempt to limit yourself and others to potential exposure. Businesses should be encouraged to let those who can work from home do it. Advise against large social happenings like concerts, football, even going to pubs.