Dr Samuel Johnson, at the University of Birmingham , used a model that accounted for the fact that different people have a different number of contacts.
How absurd it now seems that politicians and scientists worried back in early-2020 that the British public wouldn’t accept lockdown. As Professor Neil Ferguson confessed later that year, it wasn’t a measure they thought they could “get away with”. Government officials repeatedly claimed “behavioural fatigue” meant compliance with restrictions would falter after just a few weeks.
People who make the rules must abide by them, Matt Hancock has said, as he acknowledged his own infamous lockdown-breaking clinch undermined public co.