Originally Posted by
molehill
I always understood this being the reason the lockdown was not called earlier, all about timing to cover the potential peak and how long the public would comply with it.
Unfortunately this was never taken into account by the critics of government policy, "if lockdown had started a week earlier it would have saved"....etc. Well of course it would, in theory, but that doesn't take into account projected public response to lockdown. I don't think people took it seriously enough anyway, look at the countrywide scenes the weekend before official lockdown.
