Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: ‘Lockdown breakers’ risk social backlash, says author of study into American POWs in Vietnam

Neighbours who failed to stick to Covid-19 isolation rules could be shunned when lockdown is over, the author of a research paper about Prisoners of War has suggested. Lessons from a new study of American captives from the Vietnam conflict suggest there could be a backlash against members of society judged to have endangered the…