Tag: Status quo bias

Deaths in England and Wales have been below the five-year average for 11 of the past 12 weeks. Given that 80% of adults now have COVID antibodies, what possible grounds could there be to delay the full reopening?

We're publishing an original piece tonight by Dr Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University, about why it is the public have put up so little resistance to lockdowns.

Nobody would propose going into lockdown if they looked at the current numbers. So why why have we not come out of lockdown? As Daniel Hannan argues, the answer could be status quo bias.