Short story of what happened in UK:
Plan A: "Herd immunity": ~250k deaths, reduce disruption on the economy.
Public: Uh, wut now?
Plan B: "Social distancing" but without proper testing, contact tracing, or provision of health services. Clap for NHS.
Today: ~1k deaths a day (or closer to ~2k depending on how you count the deaths).
Plan C: Clap for Boris.
Public: Fuck off.
There's plenty of countries doing better than the UK right now; you can't make excuses for all of them.