It's such a narrow definition of support, really. The Government has made mistakes, and they deserve to be called out for them, because those mistakes have in this case undoubtedly cost lives. Has the madness of the Government's approach in September-December already been forgotten? The desperate attempt to "save Christmas", that ended up certainly being at the cost of tens of thousands of lives when harsher measures were necessary? Or we can push back earlier, to February-March, when granted the errors were far more widespread than this country's Government, but an error repeated is still an error.
No, I don't envy this Government's position, or the Prime Minister's, who, lest we also forget, nearly paid for his arrogance and failures with his own life. But being faced with a near impossible task isn't an excuse to abandon accountability. Quite the opposite, in fact -- why would the one time you decide to set accountability aside be the one time it matters most?