The man who advised them said the same at time. He said hard decisions and hard discussions to be had that would make it uncomfortable for some but were unavoidable.
He accepted mistakes would be made but they had to make the best decision for them, like its been said when all choices are bad you have yo make the best bad decsions.
One thing they have been is consistent and clear, they taking a long term view to best way to navigate the waters, you look at the success stories I've seen levelled on here and they are followed up with failure. NZ is its own case but they were cheered and placed up as Virus free then they see it spike again and because of their preferred way to deal with it, that was disaster and now their public are shouting about tourism and the economy. That's the issue with lockdown, open, lockdown, open. Its no plan to move forward
Our main issue now in UK is lack of decisions now rather than bad ones in my opinion. I think keeping us in a holding pattern isn't a decision TBH