[rweir]

London was under lockdown until June, everyone is already acting like it will be locked down again in the next week or so, and has had strict mask and hygiene and social distancing rules for six months, had a government direction for everyone "who can" work from home to do so for ~4.5 of the last six months (it was briefly rescinded then reinstated), crash built hospitals in convention centres to try to handle overload from hospitals and still is currently at the same new case rate as April[0]. Fortunately death rates are still fairly low. I don't know if a vaccine/other interventions will prevent it being a yearly disaster but it certainly currently is.

[0]: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--ca...

[thelightthat]

My friends in London tell me mask wearing is not widely respected or enforced, which is contributing towards the next lockdown.