I think in the UK there is a degree of thinking along these lines....
I've followed the rules for 5 weeks, I haven't been unwell, so I have not had COVID, or I've had it so mildly that it doesn't matter.
As I can't get tested I'm going to assume I'm OK.
All my friends have done the same, so we are all OK,
So I'm not staying locked up any longer.
Because in the UK there is virtually no testing available - the nearest drive through testing points for me, in Salisbury, are Portsmouth, Poole or Bristol, all an hour or so away - it is very difficult to argue against the logic.
There is also a mind set in most of the over 70s along the lines of "I've made it this far, I'm going to enjoy the years left to me and not be pushed around by some snotty little child of a civil servant who thinks he knows better; and I'm certainly not going to be isolated for the rest of the year for my own good!"
We need easily available testing, as in Germany. I'd be very happy to be tested once a month, or if I felt unwell, but it simply isn't going to happen.
The lack of Public Health Testing in the UK is something that the Government is going to have to deal with. Public Health England, a massive Quango, is not fit for purpose. When I started out working for the NHS in 1974 there was a Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) laboratory in EVERY hospital. Over the years they were rationalised into regional labs and then one central lab. With 20/20 hindsight, utterly wrong. Yes, they dealt with the NOVOCHOC issue very well, but they have failed to protect the public from COVID19.
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