I think there's a reality check required. I'm almost certain I'm at the arse end of a covid-19 infection myself. I'm NOT a statistic in the UK official account of the state of things covid-19. I did what a lot of people would do, I got ill, and I clobbered it with my armoury of scrupulous hygiene, Vit C/D/Cod liver oil, keeping warm and keeping my head down and avoiding others. I've not called a doctor or been admitted to hospital. The state has no idea about me at all. If I'm doing that, so are thousands of others. None of them are counted in the official stats.
And besides, the shuffling of pieces on the board are not a realistic protection strategy for the mass population. It's a protection strategy for the 'system', itself. The current actions are at least 2 months too late to be effective as bottom line citizen protection. I'll guess that people high up in the UK government already know that.
It's pretty obvious to me that covid-19 is now rampant here in UK. But, it's also pretty obvious to me also that it's not killing any more people than other rampant viruses here do. I assume all that is pretty obvious to the government too. Even their advice says "stay home and get through it on your own". Of course, they won't come right out and say the virus is everywhere and thousands of people are already dealing with it. Their advisers won't let them, for system crisis reasons, considering how hyped the biased media shit-show has made the whole subject.
Best think of covid 19 as this years cold-season and get on with it. That's pretty much what the UK government is doing anyway. The rest is hype-crisis-stabilisation. The supply chain crisis is a whole other story though.