The government’s callous response to the Covid report tells us everything we need to know

I am lying in bed this week with a stinking cold. Obviously I didn't think it was a cold. We never do, now, do we? No hangover passes without my sticking various swabs up my nose to see if the sweats I am feeling are self-inflicted or a symptom of Covid-19 . I guess we are lucky, eighteen months on, that we are at least able to test constantly, invading our sinuses with spiky swabs. It wasn't always like this, though, and this morning's reading – the joint report by the Health and Social Care Committee and the Science and Technology Committee about how well the UK government managed the pandemic – is not making my sore head feel any better, describing the slow approach to social distancing rules and lockdowns as "one of the most important public health failures the UK has ever experienced". It states, further, that not locking down sooner was "the wrong policy", and that it led to a higher initial death toll "than would have resulted from a more empathic early policy". If I was reading this report still raw from the bereavement of my nearest and dearest, I would have more than a sore… Read full this story

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