The government spent the past few years bragging that it beat Covid and would lose a lot of credibility if it admitted that actually it didn't and now a new pol

The government spent the past few years bragging that it beat Covid and would lose a lot of credibility if it admitted that actually it didn't and now a new policy is needed. Of course there is also a limit to what the people will take in terms of lockdowns and that hurts the government's credibility too. But the government is still betting they can persist with the current policy.