Secondo l’indagine, tutti e quattro i governi del Regno Unito “non sono riusciti ad apprezzare” l’entità della minaccia pandemica COVID

>Had the first mandatory lockdown been introduced a week earlier, on 16 March 2020, the inquiry says that modelling data shows there would have been approximately 23,000 fewer deaths in England alone during the first wave of infections up until 1 July 2020

Prison. The lot of them.

No surprises as it’s what we all knew. “Following the science” quickly became hiding behind it. When Spain was in full lockdown, we were flying plane loads of them in for a football game!

I do have some sympathies as the public are largely stupid, even now you will get people claiming it’s a hoax or thinking it’s smart to say “died with or because of covid” to the numbers, but it’s clear we had a useless government at a very serious time. We will be paying for it for the next 40-50 years too!

Then why did the tories and their friends over order by billions of pounds defective PPE that now needs to be burned and buried?

Had they appreciated the scale of covid then the grifting would have started a lot sooner, just think how much more they could have conned the country out of.

Wales checking in.

Our Health Minister at the time, Vaughan Gething, broke lockdown rules and had fish and chips with his family in public. Another minister, Lee Waters, went on frequent jollies up and down the M4 for absolutely no good reason and got grassed up by his neighbour.

It was a complete hypocritical shitshow.

Not surprising in the slightest. Even the most well-intentioned and competent governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat, nevermind our completely incompetent lot across the UK.

The specifics, however, are *damning*.

>When entering the first lockdown, none of the four governments had a strategy for when or how they would exit the lockdown;

>None of the four governments then gave enough attention to the possibility of a second wave, meaning there was “very little contingency planning” in place;

>All four governments “failed to recognise” the “entirely foreseeable” more transmissible Alpha variant in late 2020, which culminated in further nationwide lockdowns;

>The approach of all four governments in the second half of 2021 “had an element of risk” – and if vaccines were less effective, or if the Omicron variant was as severe as previous variants, the consequences would have been “disastrous”;

>The impact on the vulnerable and disadvantaged was “not adequately considered in pandemic planning”, nor the consequences of school closures on children’s education and their physical and mental health;

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That’s not all of them, but it’s the ones that to me are the most damning. All the way from the start to the end of the pandemic there was *no long term planning.*

Not from the UK gov, not from the Scottish Gov, the Welsh or the Northern Irish. It is pure *luck* that things didn’t go an order of magnitude or more worse.

I’m OK with them making mistakes in a fast moving scenario with conflicting science etc. However, pissing it up the wall while I’m burying my grandad with 6 mourners is unforgivable. And probably a reason why the country will never lock down again. Too many people will just say fuck off.

As a Welshman, one thing which frustrated me in that period was the reluctance of people here to criticise Welsh Government, even when it was making obvious errors, and often some downright stupid decisions.

The logic was always ‘would you rather that idiot Boris’.

That approach let our government off the hook and caused many deaths.

The truth is, as the report points out, no one did a good job here and a lot of confusion was caused by differing approaches