Except people have absolutely no obligation to any authority aside from the actual legislation in terms of lockdowns and what you are allowed/not allowed to do.

Except people have absolutely no obligation to any authority aside from the actual legislation in terms of lockdowns and what you are allowed/not allowed to do. The cummings story was basically the end of anyone actually respecting the government and their policies. Do I need to take a test? No Do I need to talk to a contact tracer? Nope Do I need to share any information? Also no. Because when the policy is against you every step of the way, you deincentivise people sharing valuable information, or encourage them to lie and perhaps maliciously/falsely claim you were near X person so they need to isolate too or just give them bad data, which is absolutely useless and meaningless. The government haven't built a society that will respect what they want you to do, as if you do, you end up losing out in the process, such as missing weeks off work without 100% pay which is simply unacceptable. People have absolutely no faith or trust in the government, and this pandemic has only highlighted many instances where they have gotten policy wrong, or why we shouldn't trust their "apps" (by releasing a trial app without doing a proper DPIA) or follow their policy as you end up getting fucked over. People are already coming to the UK from abroad and not filling in their 'locator forms', nor are all of them being checked, nor are people being checked if they're isolating [1], which is probably for the best as even with a fine, it's likely better to just not bother giving them your information that will be stored for 7+ years (according to their privacy policy). So until they fix that, nothing will change. [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/iexgg5/daily_megathread_23082020/g2kiwot/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/iexgg5/daily_me...