[DouglasS]

People seem to be blaming the government regardless. Going into lockdown too early can be a waste of time. Right now hospital admissions are extremely low, if we went into lockdown last week we around be halting almost no spread with a much larger cost to the economy
For almost no impact/pause on COVID. Going into lockdown too early can be ineffective and just a waste of time/millions of money with little impact, and then people will tire of the rules/lockdown when it would really matter as the lockdown was wasted.

At least people have been flouting the rules when COVID has been killing less people than the flu/other illnesses rather than during the peak.