I think it’s a bit of both. The government have truly messed up their messaging throughout the whole thing, it was never going to be a good thing to encourage people to eat out, return to pubs or get back to offices. They were probably banking on companies and hospitality having amazing, strict Covid prevention strategies in place but other than wearing a mask and sticking some hand gel out, there hasn’t been any. Some will say the guidelines on what makes a workplace/shop/restaurant “Covid safe” should have been better cascaded by the government and that is true BUT these places have to take accountability too, it’s not rocket science - for instance, with all the hype of PS5, Game and Currys have had people queuing to get in stores to preorder. The Game I went in yesterday had no inkling to invite the queue inside one at a time or to get someone in the queue asking what they wanted to speed things along, it was a free for all and a long wait inside a store not being even 1m apart (luckily I was second in the queue, would not have waited otherwise). If I walk past my local Nandos, the chairs are not 2m apart, the staff aren’t wearing masks etc. These are just two stories of many. The fact is a vast number of people have returned to their pre Covid ways with the exception of the token gesture of wearing a mask in a shop. That is NOT going to cut it. A large part of that attitude is the governments doing but a good portion is the inherent non commitment of the general public to safety precautions.