@Beebityboo
This quote in the article really pissed me off "the British people have done an amazing job - they've brought that peak down by discipline" but that "people find it difficult to keep this up, it's difficult to maintain that discipline for a long time".
He isn't blaming people. He praised them and acknowledged the difficulty people have in maintaining the restrictions for so long.
All our own fault, not at all the responsibility of the absolute clowns in power and certainly nothing to do with the fact that our testing system is in the toilet, that the young were actively encouraged to go out and spend money in restaurants, that schools were sent back with no extra funding and safety measures that will do diddly squat to stave off a virus that is spread by aerosol.
I noticed that many of these queing for tests were young people.
Many young people pictured in newspapers in and outside pubs were not exercising social-distancing and were not complying with maximum numbers/households allowed by rules/laws.
Many young people on beaches in recent weeks not social-distancing and not adhering to rules/laws on maximum numbers of people/households allowed to mix.
Many young people attended illegal raves in recent weeks.
Personally I think Boris Johnson should allocate blame to some people because there are plenty of people who have disregarded rules and many are the young.
There are plenty on MN whose first thought is to look for loopholes or just disregard the rules because they disagree with them.
I think restaurants have generally done well and tried to make their premises as covid-secure as possible.