His government has made an utter shambles of messaging the rules about who should and should not work. It's no wonder the public doesn't know which way to turn. Blaming them is lazy.
Joe average is pretty thick though. There was still confusion about who could work and who couldn't even when the rules were published and the Health Secretary said clearly what they were.
People want to believe what they believe and will refuse to believe otherwise in the face of all the facts.
And any operation involving the whole of the UK will run into problems and mis-communication. To believe otherwise is naive and shows a lack of knowledge about the basics of project management. A battle plan never survives the first contact.
I'd give it time for the virus to peak and lets see what the outcome is before we judge what's shambolic or not.
This is what I'll judge him on:
UK coronavirus death toll of 20,000 'a good outcome', says chief scientific adviser
And that may sound like a big number but we're a population of 67 million and we get several thousand deaths a year from seasonal flu. I think it was 2015/16 we had 15,000 deaths because of some problem with the flu vaccine and the wrong kind of virus.
So 20,000 deaths is good (as long as I'm not one of them; obvs).