There may have been some major pandemics in the past, but of course we live in a much more smaller world now that we have the internet and broadband. News and information is no longer controlled just through the tv, papers and radio as it once did prior to the 90s Back then people just went along with what the media said and there was little chance to counter in large numbers.I don’t even want to think about if this happens again I’d like to think that the government would have learnt from this one but they probably won’t. I don’t know whether this virus is worse than others, I am worried about the long term effects of it which we still don’t know enough about. And despite what I said I know we need to learn to live with it and I hope we find a better way, I guess I just feel at the moment that the rules put in place are the only way we know at the moment to have something other than a complete lockdown so I feel a bit of despair when people don’t want to distance & wear masks etc. I don’t think we can go from one extreme to the other, there has to be a way of navigating out of this back towards normality. I am glad I’m not the one who has to make the decisions.
Today of course that has all changed - far more people can access information from anyway and challenge it via social media. But that still won't influence politicians to tell the truth and just get on with it rather than pissing about with the rules to the point of civilian repression.