UK Covid-19. The Blitz spirit clowns…

“Tonight we burn responsibility in the fire
We’ll watch the flames grow higher
But if you get too burnt, you can’t come back home”…

**12th October 2021**…

** Joint Health & Science Committee publish their long awaited report into Boris Johnson’s Governments response to Coronavirus**…

**You can wince your way through it here:**

Coronavirus: lessons learned to date — Health and Social Care, and Science and Technology Committees — House of Commons (parliament.uk)

Euphemistically titled: ‘Lessons Learned’, it is shy to apportion blame but it does lift the lid on the bizarre John Bull mindset of the Boris Johnson Government and the British Civil Service.

Much of it just confirms what has become so apparent after 18 months:

1)Herd Immunity really was policy.

2) Myopia with Herd Immunity, delayed the lockdown until late March 2020, at the cost of possibly thousands of unnecessary deaths.

3) That myopia prevented the Johnson Government, from looking at how Asian countries, who had dealt with recent Corona Virus out breaks, for guidance.

4) That myopia, morphed into ‘groupthink’ . If you look at those countries close to — and including China, they managed to limit the virus spreading, by…