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New Sat 29 May 21 14:45 
 Cummings - Terry
I am coming to the conclusion that criticism of the government handling of the pandemic is skewed to support a preconceived political view - we don't like Boris!

Some criticism is justified - in particular the lack of contingency plans and equipment which meant that the first phase of the pandemic was poorly handled.

In the absence of a pandemic, how much criticism would have been levelled at the government of the day for the huge costs of maintaining such a contingency (warehousing, staffing, maintenance of kit, surplus capacity for oxygen, drug production etc etc. We may have now learned that it would not have been money wasted!

The assertion that care homes deaths are down to elderly being sent home from hospital is not wholly supported by analysis. Most infection was through care home staff - reported by Jenny Harries at the press conference 2 days ago.

Germany is held up as some sort of example of how to manage the pandemic - they did far better than the UK in the first lockdown having acted much more quickly, but since June 2020 have recorded 77,000 deaths vs 88,000 in the UK. Still better but hardly an outstanding success and their vaccine rollout lags the UK.

Italy Belgium, Hungary, Czechia, Poland have done worse than the UK in covid deaths per million. Spain, Portugal, France are not far behind.

None of this makes the outcome good - but reinforces the need for more balanced reporting and opinions of events. A full report on the pandemic is required - although I suspect if things follow the normal course of such things it will take 10 years or more.

Far better would be to breakdown the task into manageable chunks and deal with each more quickly - eg: contingency planning, vaccine funding and rollout, did government follow scientific advice, how was SAGE established, procurement processes etc.

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