Too easy to blame human failings when overwhelmingly, most humans have no say in what is done on their/our behalf

OK I'll have to call it unintended consequences people do what they do without thinking. Life is actually too complex to get it all on board. But en mass there are trends. As someone pointed out coal fired power switched on, consumption up. Tell them to stay at home and switch off the TV, Computer, and the lights. And the unintended unintended consequences are disbelief and disobedience.

In the UK we have a rule "walking for an hour, permitted" so people drove to pretty and wide open spaces en mass. unintended consequences? or was the addendum "don't drive to walk" too complex to put into words until the pictures of it were plastered over the news? People don't think, because the situation pretty dire and just dealing with the worst is all we can manage.
Call it piecemeal. Pay as you go. We haven't seen this ilk since WW2, and I would posit none of this parish remember that lock-down.