It's an absolute disgrace and moral outrage the way the UK government has caved to the demands of criminal drug pushers and their banking mates. No house points whatsoever for the lies, terror, abuse of science and psychological war conducted against the population. That said, I'd agree, the UK has been less draconian than many of the overseas natural born authoritarians. Which is an indictment in itself. My guess is the pushers have applied different methods to different regions, with some regions being used as controls and others pushed to the edge of experimentation. The worry is if favourable results (for the pushers) come back from Australia, Austria and the marxist controlled regions of the USA these will soon be applied more widely.
Whatever, here we are almost 2 years down the road and still in panic and fall over mode, an embarrassing blight on the history of our species that shows we haven't progressed so far from the trees and the caves after all.