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It seems to me that there are a lot of people here and elsewhere for whom the government can do no right. If the government came up with a wider cure tomorrow, people would be whining about how they failed to come up with it yesterday or criticising them because they can't administer it to 66 million people all on the dame day.
The is the worst health crisis that anybody alive today has ever lived through. It's the worst crisis of any sort since WW2 and the people running WW2 mostly remembered WW1. Of course the government is making mistakes. They are having to make up the response as they are going along.
My impression is that people, here and elsewhere, including the opposition, have been bending over backwards to provide positive and constructive support for the govt. actions on the health crisis.
Not only is Covid-19 a new disease, there are huge gaps in our knowledge concerning it, and there is no cut and dried way of managing the crisis: we have, and will, make mistakes and need to correct them or change strategy or tactics.
The damning criticisms of the government have little directly to do with failures in tackling the pandemic but concern the unforced errors due to the dishonesty and incompetence in the administration itself and communications with anyone outside Downing St.
The crisis can't be stopped unless people can trust the government. The PM needs to reassure us, the critics, that he and his team can be trusted or put together a team that can be.
