I fully agree with what you say.
It's the initial blasé, apathetic and in all honesty conceited attitude to the pandemic that grips me. The fact the respective UK governements are still proverbially pissing in the wind in some aspects to control the crisis is concerning. The only hope I have is that this will be a massive learning curve and we're not in this position again if such a crisis occurs again (probably wishful thinking).
It's striking the differnce between ourselves and Germany.