Biggest message that has gone unexplained throughout in this country is WHY the distancing, mask, and smaller contacts list measures need to work. Clearly Boris and his mates have done a rubbish job of that as all the #thinkingformyself brigade are just randomly running around spreading infection at a rate that is going to fill the ICUs anyway.
I've not heard anyone that has said 'learn to live with it' explain a way of doing that with a disease which is spreading exponentially, but will stop the NHS from functioning in a couple of months if that goes unchecked.
Boris lost the room on this back in April. But the answer isn't to allow pubs and gigs and theatres to open at maximum capacity.
Whether or not people have individually 'had the last straw', we are less than 15% of the way through this. Hopefully a vaccine will accelerate the last 40-50%.
In the meantime, understanding that following proper distancing and mask measures, along with knowing your weekly contacts list, is the only known way to help isolate those who can spread it further.
But it appears that nationally there aren't enough people prepared to do that to keep a lid on it.
So at the moment, we just have a map of local areas of people who can't be arsed.
Learning to live with it IS shoving a mask on so you don't spread it, not hanging around for ages in groups inside, and staying apart outside. It is mostly working in those parts of the country which aren't bright pink of the map. As it is in Germany, Italy, Thailand etc.
It's all the folks that won't follow the basics who are jeopardising this for all our doctors & nurses across the country. What IS your proposal for learning to live with it, and how does it differ @ListeningQuietly?