It really looks as though, when the dust clears, the two countries (in the north or the developed or western world or whatever you want to call it) that have had the worst official, national response led by their governments are gonna be the US and UK. Fucking anglo dickheads.
Meant to reply to this earlier, but it's worth pointing out that my brother in Australia tells me that Scott Morrison over there has been equally, or almost equally, useless. By all accounts he's a sort of mini-Trump except with even stronger links to the coal industry - and corresponding interest in climate change denial - and a sideline in nutty evangelical Christianity. Australia hasn't been too badly affected so far, I think, but their very low population density and the fact that they have decent public health care must be helping a lot.
In this country specifically, every aspect of the official response has the hallmark of this shitty right-wing populism that's completely taken over in recent years. You've got the total contempt for science and expertise, except where it backs up an official line that's already been decided on, or can be twisted to make it look that way. There's a bogus idea of "self-sufficiency" rooted in xenophobia and exceptionalism (the refusal to take part in the EU ventilator scheme). The obsession with masculine strength, so that Boris Johnson pulled through because he's a "fighter" (rather than because he obviously received the best possible medical care). The idea that young people are "snowflakes", so that it's mainly people in late middle age who are totally ignoring social distancing rules, despite being at much higher risk than their children and grandchildren. And so on.