Yes it’s tough for most Governments. The Tier System is damaging the economy and people’s social lives without having much impact on the economy. Falling between two stools isn’t really helping.
They've been making horror sci fi movies like this for decades. Even Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, WestWorld and ER) started off with one 50 years back based on his book The Andromeda Strain.
These stories usually had some hero saving the day in some way as people fell like flies. But in the real world people are flawed, daring do is less apparent than daring don't, boring stuff like political conflict, balancing the books and making viruses do what you want them to do always look less good on camera and not quite so easy to pull off in real life.
We have been conditioned to expect some local version of James Bond will arrive and save the day and presidents and prime ministers will all be wise, fearless figures who act fast and decisively to hell with the cost in order to save the world - as opposed to real life where human beings are not like that in all but rare instances and are really flawed, selfish and want to wait it out and wish it to go away because it is messing up their lives
Unfortunately nothing beyond sheer hard work, time, effort and good fortune can arrive to save the day outside of Hollywood.
The story of this pandemic would not have been great box office. But it is what we have and the human race will stand or fall together and eventually come out the other side more or less intact.
Then they will make movies about it by the dozen I expect after which we will all probably say - it was really NOTHING like that at all.
And your great grandchildren on your knee in the care home many moons from now will ask because they are studying it in history at school - what did you do during the great pandemic? Were you a Covid hero?
You should all just hope that with a straight face and a minimum of obfuscation you can say to them - yes - and not desperately try to forget what you really did because your life mattered more than saving the world.