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I see lack of PPE kit and other issues in many other EU countries.
Some issues are also part a judgement call.
There are definitely are cultural differences too, Sweden was fine with very relaxed restrictions though that may change now. In some countries like NL dying of covid when old may be fine for the person involved as long as they can make the choice not to go into hospital, and herd immunity didn't cause the outrage it did in NL when mentioned.
However, a fail with a mark of 5/10 is still better than 1/10 in my book. The UK government has been very lax in some areas and has made political decisions not to work with the EU, has reacted very late, the NHS was already struggling and they were warned a pandemic could overstress it in 2016 etc.
So while many countries made mistakes/reacted late (see Sweden) there are still differences in how it was handled that can be due to incompetence/ignoring science
Let's face it.
No Govt is going to come out of this smelling of roses...
Regardless.