It has been pointed out by some that Sage is largely made of behavioural psychologists, and I find it entirely plausible that they have set things up so that people are pressured into following the rules or risk being chased by the crowd. There is a lot of blame psychology and guilt inducing going on like "masks are to protect others".
I'm not saying it's some mad conspiracy theory I just think the whole thing is off. If you watch both the mainstream media and independent journalists/scientists you start to notice that certain key points, statistics and scientific papers are not up for discussion in the mainstream.
Personally I benefit from the current situation so the only reason to speak out (and be met with a lot of backlash) is for everyone elses good as a whole. I am quite shocked that many refuse to question what is going on and take the biased and sometimes lying Government and mainstream media's word as gospel given that more data is now out there.
Anyone who has done their research ought to know that the current approach is causing more harm than good. Trying to prevent losses is inadvertedly going to cause more overall deaths and suffering with many going undiagnosed with cancers and other bigger killers than Covid due to the shutdown as just one example.
Fair enough the original lockdown was called for, but now there's enough data for decisions to be made. I think a much simpler and cost-effective solution would have be to let people shield if they fall into one of the vulnerable groups and use the furlough money to support them, instead of shutting down the other 99%
