I won't comment on your other points, but you are definitely unfair on contact tracing and mass testing. Contact tracing scales extremely poorly. Contact traci

I won't comment on your other points, but you are definitely unfair on contact tracing and mass testing. Contact tracing scales extremely poorly. Contact tracing a single case involves a long interview and to the tune of a hundred people to be found and tested; for a disease like COVID you need to catch 60–80% of all infected contacts. Rinse repeat for each newly discovered case. It just wasn't possible in the UK for more than a few hundred cases and in the absence of R-reducing measures, so it was abandoned. And before you make comparisons with other countries, just having a centralised database of addresses makes contact tracing much easier, but it's not a thing in the UK because privacy. Mass testing requires mass testing capacity, which just wasn't there. And it's not clear how mass testing would make anything better anyway, the policy was to self quarantine on any symptoms regardless of covid status.