Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
What is your proposal to stop it happening again? You don't get anywhere simply stating a grievance imo. I agree with much of your comment but I don't think we will ever try to repeat the way we dealt with covid.
The whole issue is that the population needs to create immunity either naturally by surviving the plague or by creating vaccines. The politicians never understood the timescale for either. Second, third, fourth waves of variants didn't change the basic mortality rates. I think this was a major flaw in the approach. Transmission rates could be measured but I dont think the death rates were accurately recorded. As has often been said dying with covid was converted into a statistic that was interpreted as dying from covid.
Sorry for the off topic comment.
Covid was the reason for holding the enquiry. I think the lack of WhatsApp messages does undermine the enquiry. We need records to show what decisions were taken but much more usefully the reasons why they were taken needs to be understood. The reasoning would have been capable of critical comment and lessons could be learned.
We risk learning nothing, and thereby look like repeating the nightmare scenario outlined by Rross.
First thing is to get sensible folk like yourself to believe THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN......I'd suggest first chance they get.