This to me this is rather straightforward as I possibly naively perhaps just do what is right for I and family and friends. I am not being disingenuous as just my humble opinion.
All political "leaders" are crap and full of (select choice Mums Net acceptable adjective/description). No government nor political leadership have your own personal physical health and mental well being at heart. It's simply a medical health versus economic health balancing act as seemingly no nation have perfect scores on both counts.
Yes there is a ranking of relative Covid performance each with unique circumstances. Obviously we along with the likes of USA, Brazil, India, Russia and Mexico are currently at the bottom of the Covid "performance" league.
Governments and peoples of Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Israel and Germany among others have out performed most based on actual case fatalities, infection rates and overall containment and compulsory accurate and frequent test, track, trace and isolate policies plus the people in these nations tend to follow all sensible mitigation measures and don't prefer either herd immunity or are anti science.
We are still arguing about basic common sense personal Covid smart mitigation measures and so needing to implement criminal law (to stop "criminals") for mandatory noncompliance.
In this global pandemic we should (after half a year observing our outcomes) be able to find our best fit path to navigate through all the political spin and collectively do the right thing. We need to be more community and civic duty minded so we can all better protect each other and get the economy restarted as otherwise the consequences will be further excess deaths and economic depression worst in centuries.
How do we collectively restart and be safe? Well how about forgetting whether there will be any vaccine or cure as there is very very slim hope of anything effective and so if in doubt we all need to take more precautionary personal safety approach. Start to do all the previous stuff as much as practicably possible (within guidelines). We all need to be flexible and repurpose and rethink strategies and not be dependent on a political "leadership" which is proving at best confused and at times contradictory and worryingly no longer allowing scientists to be "equal" in decision making as it's now pivoted to economic health. It's basically taking the middle path between the precautionary scientific path and the more medically risk adverse economic path.
Above all else after 50k plus UK Covid excess deaths we should all put away any polarised politics and unite to fight the common humanity enemy. We have forthcoming hard WTO Brexshit with no nice fat juicy trade deals so need to optimise all possibilities!
Stay safe, work add value and spend if you can!