We are full into "blame the public" mode to deflect from the government which is *co-incidentally* happening at the same time as the government approval level starts to drop as the deaths caused by their clusterfuck mishandling of things last month start to pile up.
The government want the public to think that we're seeing such high death stats because people are lying on the grass in their local park when they don't have gardens, and not because 3 weeks ago they were keeping pubs open and giving conflicting advice about how to behave.
And that's to say nothing of that period where Herd Immunity was the strategy, but we're meant to forget that and hate our neighbours instead.