Why are people so determined that the tiers won't work?

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Or are pointless? I agree lots of mistakes have been in the handling of this whole thing and I'm certainly no Tory but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

We're in a High Alert Area, which means we carry on as normal, except wfh where possible and inky mix household outdoors, limited tonal total of six people. Schools remain open.

This has been explained by our LA (if anyone's listening) as being because:

-The two big risks are work and mixing indoors
-Yes, people who need to go to work are at risk
-Yes, schools are a risk

However, every contact we can remove reduces the spread, so if we take these measures the spread will be reduced and we can keep schools and essential services open.

People here seem determined that because there's still some risk (how were we ever going to eliminate it competely) every and all other measure is pointless while schools and businesses are open.

What is certian is that if people don't comply, they won't work.

I wonder if being forced to go into tier 3 v going willingly or even asking to be out there will have an impact on how compliant people are? The additional issue with greater Manchester is that they've been in some form of local lockdown for months without seeing results. So people are massively frustrated and disillusioned which I'd imagine would lead to low compliance.

The lengthy period we've been under restrictions certainly will: as I understand it, what we know about lockdowns and human nature is that they only work for so long. We're a species who evolved to be close to each other, so avoiding is anathema. And there's obviously some awareness here of the fact that none of this has been done on our timetable, that the wellbeing and local economies of others have been and continue to be prioritised over us. Not everyone is bothered by this, or even realises that it has happened, but enough know and resent it for the trust levels to have significantly been impacted.