@BogRollBOGOF Why couldn't the politicians have said "We did it! We saved the NHS! The track and trace is working. We are managing and living with the virus without devestating consequences to society. We have been sucessful."
I suppose the government is afraid that if they do say something like that, the public will take it to mean "Boris says the virus has gone", and will rip off the masks, and start partying like there's no tomorrow. And it would probably be aided and abetted by the shit-stirring media - they would have a huge headline "It's all over", and underneath it in small print, which nobody would see, "but you still mustn't hug Granny". The government are also afraid that if they say anything positive, and it goes wrong later, their words will haunt them. Mind you, I'm always quoting Saint Boris proclaiming "we can turn this virus around in twelve weeks".
It's clear that their strategy is to wait for the public to get fed up and break the roolz, so it's the public's fault, not the government's. (And then the government is astonished when the public are too terrified to do anything.) It looks as if the gov are taking their cue from what the public seems comfortable with doing; which is why I think we should be more rebellious. The gov is probably also hoping there won't be a schools outbreak, and that they might be able to get away with not cancelling Christmas.