It's because politicians and many people think that putting rules in will help manage spread but viruses don't respect rules. Problem is these people don't get that. Human arrogance makes many think that we can control everything but we can't. To use a term I dislike, these are the true covidiots.
Not arrogance, fear; too many sensationalized reports, and our almost pornographic obsession with daily case and death numbers has cause the logical areas of the neocortex to shut down from feat, and we're left with the monkey logic of the limbic system and amygdala. These systems search for simple solutions, even if they're more damaging than more complex ones.
Indeed, the public, politicians and even some experts seem to be fixated on there being a "source" that they can curtail to slow / stop the spread. If only viruses worked that way.
This kind of goes back to the role of our voting system in causing divisions: our current system dates from the days when MPs had no party affiliation, as soon as multiple parties became established and voting on laws was a matter of what the whips say, rather than the best interests of constituents, it became out of date. If the youngsters don't like the mainstream parties they won't necessarily vote for other parties, even if they really like them, because their votes don't matter in effect. In the case of Extinction Rebellion, I imagine if the Greens could get better representation they'd get more support from youngsters, and if Momentum could be represented easily as a standalone party they wouldn't have effectively hijacked Labour.
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