UK: Official COVID Inquiry Accepts That Lockdown Was Not Inevitable
22nd July 2024
The first official report of the UK’s COVID Inquiry—which has cost the British taxpayer at least £300,000 (€355,000) a day over the last year—contains a number of predictable conclusions. Namely that the UK’s pandemic planning was riddled with “fatal strategic flaws” and, as reported in The Guardian, made all the worse by Brexit and Conservative austerity measures.
But, rather unexpectedly, it is also fairly critical of the policy of locking down the country for months on end—or, indeed, at all.