Coronavirus and the options for the UK government (or more accurately, each of the 4 component parts of the UK) are pretty bleak, but one good thing has been the steady increase in testing capacity (480K; 347K used) and now improvement in turn around time (more done in 48 hours)
Personally I think more can be done at the local level between "Pillar 1" (NHS) and "Pillar 2" (community testing) to help get even deeper+faster testing, but of course testing by itself doesn't solve the issues; one needs effective isolation support as well.
All this doesn't change the fact that there are a very large number of active infections across the UK, and these inevitably lead to hospitalisations, nasty disease and for older people, often death. We need to push down this infection level harder for this to be sustainable.
At the moment the main tools are improving the end-to-end operation of Test-Trace-Isolate (as ever, very easy to tweet, far harder to do, and the system is as good as its weakest link) and broader regional or national NPIs
Again, in a pandemic it is far far better to go in hard early, get control and then take away restrictions once control is re-established. In the majority of England we don't have clear control of viral transmission and we are likely at health-care unsustainable levels.
I don't envy the people who either generate the advice here how to chart the way forwards nor the people who take the decisions.
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