This is another problem with their continued insistence that they are 'following the science'. There is no expert I know of who would recommend acting late with containment efforts like lockdowns, and/or not preparing the health services with, e.g., adequate PPE. Their stance seems to be a veiled excuse 'if things suck and we end up having the worst outcome in Europe, it will be because we got bad scientific advice'. This 'bad advice' argument isn't a good excuse at the best of times, but seems even more disingenuous when there's no transparency about what that advice was or how any so-called expert could have suggested such an ass-backwards approach to the crisis.

They've also seem to have adopted the Trump line that 'we're doing a great job'. Well, like in the US, the numbers say otherwise.

I would be much more forgiving if they just came out and said 'look, we fucked up. Now let's all work together on this.' the way Macron did. Obviously we can't expect that of Trump, but it'd be nice if our own gov't at least gave us some straight talk on all this, instead of hiding behind its advisors and trying to gaslight us into thinking they've been doing a great job all along when it's obvious they haven't.