Roar writer Alin C. Luca argues that governments should have accounted for natural rule-breaking tendencies when designing Covid-19 policy.
I don’t know what’s worse: to be in your 40s and still to believe in Santa Claus, or to be a politician in your 40s and still believe that people are adhering to lockdown rules. In both cases, you have to be either strikingly gullible or a hypocrite.
South Bank Rave
People stopped complying with lockdown rules when they realised they can legitimise their actions in light of the given exceptions (social bubbles et al). This is a natural cognitive process. For legitimising our behaviour, as explained by Professor Skinner, is one of the main things that we humans are good at.