People love an existential crisis but it's still serious and it'll take a couple of years to pass - if nothing else the knock on societal impact will be massive.
Personally I'm actually ok with the response here - the gov have obviously starved the NHS of funds for a decade so it's always going to struggle in the face of a pandemic but since this thing has spread they've chaired COBRA meetings and the NHS have done more tests than anyone else in Europe bar Italy (I suspect this is partly because they know the infrastructure won't cope once an outbreak does happen). I would also say they should encourage people to work from home and cancel public events for a while but that's more just a gut feel, it'll only just delay the inevitable at this stage.
