Gov seem to have realised that many don't trust them. Throw in misinformation and matters get worse. There are anti just about everything groups of people about who will do their best to convince others
even concerning the EU.
Some will accept misinformation or look for ways of bending the rules because it suites them. Gov - now things are vaguer more uncertainty.
That may be some do better so aren't we great.
These show some interesting features in various sections
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
Cases these day have a similar shape to deaths. I think I see a period where covid was not news worthy. It's also possible to see the 2 failed attempts to control it and IMHO too late really. I suppose info from Wale's short sharp shock lock down was too recent but .............
Then the number forcasts that a modeller came up with 500,000 deaths if and only if they didn't do anything about it. That actually was the reasonable worst case.
The gov didn't like the worst worst case. They can do sums like this once they know the effects on a population. So then we get lots of shouting about 500,000 when they are doing something about it from cretins that haven't got a clue. 1,000s die from flue each year etc when covid had already killed far far more.
And so it goes on. It's not so much the population it's more down to life and some idiots. Not in the news - don't worry etc.