"why doesn't a country full of dickheads, lead by dickheads, stop acting like dickheads?" is basically what you've asked.
The answer? Cos that's what dickheads do. Act like dickheads. We had one shot at compliance, and we got an awful lot of it early on - we genuinely did! Everywhere was absolutely dead. But of course we wasted that time. The government fucked up the app, fucked up track and tracing, fucked up public trust with the cummings stuff and constant lies, fucked up timings of messages (go to work! go to uni! buy out to help out! but its all your fault now its rising!) and so on and so on. It isn't going to get any better. Large parts of the country have lost all faith, our government hasn't got a clue of how to win it back as they don't know how to connect with people on a human level.
There is *zero* chance we're ever getting control of this. We're not New Zealand. We're not Sweden. We're not Germany. Countries where society is a lot more reasonable, a lot more trusting and a lot more decent. We're a little arrogant shit hole of a country with truly awful, incompetent leaders who have no idea how to actually lead or gather public trust. There are plenty of great people here, but we're outnumbered. I've accepted that all I can personally do now is just hope for the best, be safe and hope that my loved ones are still all alive after the winter. It's a shite way to live, but I don't see any alternative.
