The best treatment thing is also on my mind. If he can’t get through it, there’s no hope for anyone else.
But if he comes out of ICU there’s hope.
(But mainly because I just seem to like him all of a sudden. Must be some kind of lockdown thing!)
Re testing and PPE. I think there isn’t enough due to the lack of pre pandemic prep. Which is awful, but not a criminal offence as no one has a crystal ball. I think by the time anyone realised there was going to be a pandemic it was already too late. Yes, I know that pandemics were always a possibility, but so we’re a lot of other things. Everything is a gamble.
Re the later lockdown and hand washing, I think everything that has been done/suggested was for the best of intentions. Not wanting to lockdown or close schools too early has proved right. Nearly a thousand people died yesterday and people still want to visit relatives at the weekend and send their children back to school. It would be MUCH harder to get people to understand and obey a lockdown if we’d started earlier and less people had been dying. People would be saying it was too much and the government was destroying the economy unnecessarily (like they are saying now, even though thousands of people have died).
So actually, I think the government have done as well as they could reasonably be expected to do without a crystal ball or a vaccine.