Covid-19 and the Stiff Upper Lip — The Pandemic Response in the United Kingdom
for many weeks, the British instinct to “Keep Calm and Carry On” was the public face of the U.K. government’s response to Covid-19. Policies were to be “based on the science,” with an initial focus on containment, involving identification of people infected with SARS-Cov-2, contact tracing, and isolation of people with proven exposure. As late…