What will history conclude about the UK government's anti-coronavirus fight?

I think it would be pretty fair to say that most people in the United Kingdom are now more confused than ever about what they can and cannot do to help counter the pandemic spreading further. There have been so many edicts, often contradicting each other, that it really is impossible to be sure about anything from day to day. Rule of six, mingling households, self-isolation, lockdown, masks here but not there, drinking until 10pm, then crowd out in the street, it's all getting mixed together in a mish-mash of pleas and rules and guidance and orders. Thousands of students go up to university for the first time and start enjoying the social get-togethers and then have to stay in their rooms and not move because of the sudden surprise surprise surge in virus cases. It's not just a farce. It's a romping disaster. I know we are all being warned that Covid-19 is the deadliest pandemic to hit the world since the last deadliest pandemic but is it right that it has totally taken over our lives? The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (future prime minister) said that we shouldn't live in fear of the virus. He's right. The students, bless them, are doing just that, living in fear and confusion. If this was a flu epidemic, would everyone be running around in circles not daring to go left or right? No, flu is flu, you feel awful for a few days, take to your bed and suffer from the heavy hot hot headaches and then after a bit get up have some food and get on with your life. For the majority of people catching Covid-19 that is also their experience. Obviously for the rest, the experience is much much worse and potentially life-threatening. But people die of flu every winter. In fact I think I'm right in saying that now in the so-called second wave of coronavirus fewer people are dying each day of the disease than would normally be dying of flu at this time of the year. This is not to play down Covid-19. Some of the images of the pandemic will remain with us for ever. But to counter coronavirus the government and all its ministers are giving the impression that they have turned into headless chickens. So when we get assurances that if Brexit goes ahead without an EU trade deal fixed by the end of October it will all be fine, absolutely no one believes them. No one!!