Thanks for asking. You've been whining about your misleading narrative so hard, you've never actually asked me that.
The government DIDN'T get it right. The government WASN'T straight with us. Because governments - ALL the governments - did what governments ALWAYS do and err on the side of preserving the go***mn precious status quo.
And huge numbers of people died because of it.
They're doing the right thing now because COVID is MAKING them do the right thing. Because people are FURIOUS with them for avoiding the right thing from the start. This is being driven by a broken trust, broken by a lack of action that would have nipped the whole thing in the bud.
And the election in November reflected that.
Why would we trust them now? We're FURIOUS now. That's why even though they would love to go back to doing nothing, they're reluctantly giving this the attention they should have given it BEFORE my friends and family died.