The UK's grim milestone

Not only has the UK now confirmed the death of 100,000 people from Covid-19, but it is apparently the smallest country in the world to register 100,000 deaths. Somehow that makes it even worse. Other countries such as the US, Brazil and India have suffered more deaths but they have much bigger populations. Ergo, the UK is the worst country on the whole planet as far as the pandemic is concerned. Why the hell is this? What's gone wrong apart from the constant changes of mind by the government and the failure to stop people flying into the UK from around the world from the very beginning including those coming from China where the virus began, closing and opening and then closing schools at the drop of a hat, encouraging people to book holidays abroad and then advising everyone to stay at home, announcing a five-day respite so all families could snuggle and hug and kiss and envelope each other around Christmas and then expect everyone to obey when Christmas was cancelled at the last moment, and reopening all restaurants and then closing them and allowing drinks to be taken away from pubs and then forbidding it, and then insisting on masks being worn on public transport and in shops but failing to enforce it and promising that lockdown will all be over by February, then March, then April, then the summer, then by the end of 2021 then into 2022 until everyone is driven mad, mentally depressed, angry, desperate and cast into blackness. Apart from all of that, it has all being going swimmingly well.