[makomk]

I think it's a lot easier to get people to go along with measures like this when they actually seem to work, which might make it hard to disentangle cause and effect. Certainly, Europe seemed to have a hell of a drop in lockdown compliance once it became clear they weren't going to eradicate Covid or go away any time in the foreseeable future. Also, the media reporting focuses on the success stories and the people who comply when things are going well and the opposite when it's not working - Australia and New Zealand had their fair share of quarantine hotel escapes and government screw-ups in their precautions, some of which they got more lucky with than others, but because it was a success those didn't make it into news coverage elsewhere so much.