When you say better than some, I'm guessing you mean England, USA, Brazil. But very few others. It's interesting how the right wing governments have failed so badly with this.
You're right in saying SG's hands are tied to some degree by WM (maybe we'd have done better were it not for a certain vote 6 years ago going the wrong way), but the upshot is, no excuses - this has been handled appallingly.
That a second lockdown is on the horizon just goes to emphasise it.