| Comment | I think it's a mix of bad luck and as others have said, lockdown. People forget we had lockdown for longer than nearly anywhere else here and it's had the results:
* a lot of people's social skills went down
* a lot of people who needed mental health support didn't get it, including a lot of people who used to regularly get it who then got it taken away
* a lot of people got PTSD from being isolated so long
* a lot of people turned to substance abuse to get through it
* the people that still mixed did so with smaller groups of people who largely had less respect for law-abiding in the first place, which might have pushed some people to become more so that way themselves going forward
A lot of this behaviour also points to people not being aware of the people around them which also you can point right back to lockdown. We simply weren't around others for ages. The concept went out of the heads of a lot of folk, plus once we started opening up again people keep their distance from each other so no-one would tell off someone who was being a pain. |
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