Ok, but consider that British society, and perhaps especially London society, is basically structured around the idea that you work all week 9-5 (or longer) in a job you hate, probably with a hellish commute because you can’t actually afford to live near where you work and all the rest of it, and the only thing that actually makes it bearable is going and drinking yourself into oblivion in the pub on Friday night, and that as a country we are basically incapable of socialising without alcohol anyway, and an awful lot of places have lost any sort of meaningful social space that isn’t a pub.
Consider that so many people live in absolute tiny spaces, without even a balcony, or in shared houses with very limited privacy. And consider again that again the thing that gets many people through the year at work in the soul-destroying, office/retail job is the thought of that one week on a Greek island or whatever, and how many people have had that snatched away from them this year or for the foreseeable.
Consider that a humane approach to lifting lockdown wouldn’t have been shoving people out into non-essential jobs or jobs that can easily enough be done from home, wouldn’t have been centred around having your cleaner in your house before your own mother, or considered playing golf more important than friends meeting up, or, like, actual human affection. Consider that many people are being told that social distancing or mask wearing isn’t essential at work or for their kids to go back to school.
Consider that we went into lockdown after almost every single other European country, consider that a factor in that decision making was the existence of Cheltenham and the bloody gambling lobby putting huge amounts of pressure on the government. Consider that part of our reasoning for rushing out of lockdown is Brexit, and another part of it is Dominic Fucking Cummings.
Consider who the Tory government want you to blame if there is a second wave, and consider why the fuck you are doing their propaganda for them.
Consider that the problem isn’t individuals, the problem is the system and by the system I mean capitalism.
