You and xsnaggle need to take a step back and look at what you're doing here - your desire to paint the UK Government in a good light is making you indulge in all sorts of what iffery to make Germany look less good in comparison to us.
Did you watch last night's Newsnight?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...night-05052020
If you didn't, it's well worth a watch, particularly the professor from Edinbugh University interviewed at the start. There's also a piece about how Germany are dealing with the virus and a discussion about our death figures in which it is claimed that a Cabinet member is saying that 4,000 new cases a day and, consequently, forty deaths per day would be an "acceptable" outcome -
The Government's line is that they are only doing what "the science" tells them, I have two questions arising from that - first, is the UK version of "the science" different from "the science" in other countries, because the policies pursued by the UK has differed from many other countries who are generally reckoned to have handled the crisis pretty well.
My second question is have decisions really been taken based on "the science"? The feeling I find hard to shake off is that UK decisions have had as much, if not more, to do with what is/was possible given the level of equipment, resources, personnel and testing apparatus available at the time - this despite the warning to Government arising from the outcome Pandemic exercise held in 2016.
Also, unless the daily figure for number of tests starts to rise soon, the meeting of the 100,000 target by the end of April will be seen as nothing more than a political stunt.
Finally, I owe you a partial apology regarding your contention that your wife had the virus in December. Given the confirmation from France, from a very reliable source it would appear, that someone had it there during that month, I'd say your claim has moved from the nonsense category to the unlikely, but possible one.