All the polling shows that the public are very pro-lockdowns despite the relentless media onslaught.
You're absolutely right. I find the stories of struggling business owners among the worst coverage because they're falsely presented as oppositional. "Look at the harm these blasted lockdowns are doing." In the overwhelming majority of cases, this is not the tone of the business owners themselves who completely understand the need to protect public health. They need and want financial support, not for people to die.
Ultimately, that's what I find most exasperating about the UK government's response and the media coverage. It's presented as a subtly shifting balancing act of vacillating restrictions where we choose health for a bit, then the economy for as long as we can, then the NHS, and rinse and repeat. In doing so, and as the data supports, we've fared far worse than comparable neighbours in terms of deaths and economic impact. Arguably, we've just about (touch wood) prevented a collapse of the NHS, but you've got to be the worst kind of Tory lickspittle to attribute that to anyone but the NHS staff themselves, who have been fucking unbelievable in the face of utter cuntery.
And even now, with the golden ticket of two vaccines handed to the cunts, they can't keep it clear and simple. There has to be some smug showboating because
they know best. Lock the fuck down, put your hands on in your pockets, correctly administer the vaccines to the most appropriate candidates and plan for a restart after Easter. But, no. It'll be shuffling this way and that like a dithering cunt, leaks to the Telegraph, last-minute U-turns, small businesses going under, schools and unis in disarray and a massive cunt off pile of corpses.
Even if this vaccine gamble works, they can take no fucking credit for it.
