Orava wrote:COVID inquiry - Matt Hancock being grilled, live on BBC2 now. Quite entertaining.
Vomit inducing. Hancock, the guy in charge of many of the dodgy decisions during the pandemic, was quite clearly contradicting Boris - Boris has said time and again, that Brexit helped us during the pandemic. But now we hear that the planning was completely wrong, there was no analysis of the effects of locking down the country, and preparing for a no-deal Brexit took funding away from pandemic planning.
The biggest fact that needs to be repeated. In 2015 the Government held a multi-department exercise preparing to deal with a pandemic*. The report afterwards made eighteen recommendations, including the refreshing and rotation of PPE stocks. NONE of the recommendations were implemented by Hancock or his predecessors.
*Note also that the Health Department since 2010 had become fixated on a possible influenza pandemic. That includes a huge stockpile of Tamiflu that was ultimately not needed. But from 2012 the World Health Organisation and UK experts were predicting other respiratory illnesses were more likely to be the next pandemic, following on from the MERS and SARS outbreaks.
