The list of wrong, sleepy and critical decisions is long.
Even in the eleventh month of the pandemic, the rulers can think of surprisingly little apart from the lockdown and the hope of a successful vaccination campaign.
Instead of feverishly working on concepts and solutions, you simply go home and discuss further restrictions on freedom. Every week there is a new culprit, about whom the media then report with relish and dutifulness: Christmas visitors, mulled wine drinkers, tobogganists, home office grouches, public transport users. Those in power never touch their own noses.