I thought Hancock's presentation the other day was reasonably honest. Some of the officials are truly dreadful. But it isn't the easiest thing to stand in front of a camera and answer a barrage of questions.
The odd thing is I think people would have been sympathetic to the failures in a testing system designed to work with a flu epidemic and run by a plodding bureaucracy. If only they'd admitted the bleeding obvious. As for PPE etc. someone needs to admit to the strategic disaster of outsourcing manufacture of critical equipment to other countries. Stands to reason that in a pandemic those other countries will look after their own first. A country like the UK should have the capacity to manufacture critical equipment, even if they leave it dormant and ramp up as required.
Lots of problems, but so far not as bad as many other countries. Time will tell.