Four years and £200 million on and we still don’t have an outcome from years of inquisition from hundreds of richly rewarded lawyers. Paid by the hour, why would they hurry?
Baroness Hallett has a comfy seat and always looks very pleased with herself and her adoring flock of legal eagles. Yes Malady, no Malady, three bags full Malady. The clock keeps ticking on the money tree and the lawyers can always find another question to ask.
I can’t wait for recommendations any longer, so here is my alphabet of analysis and predictions :-
- ACTION :- varied between snails pace at the start to blind panic when we needed PPE..
- Bodj :- totally the wrong man for the job, grasping at straws and full of false confidence.
- COBRA COMMITTEE :- a talking shop not place for leadership or carefully thought out action.
- DISTANCE :- an over-simplistic solution
- EDUCATION :- Schools were closed, doing untold damage to a generation of children.
- FAUCI :- Doctor Anthony Fauci who led the USA response to Covid, but had questionable links to the Big Pharma and the funding of the Whuhan laboratory.
- G
- HOSPITALS :- fought valiantly but were quickly overwhelmed; effectively shutting down all other operations. Resulting in millions on the waiting lists for years after.
- INFECTION FATALITY RATE :- elderly people were the worst hit with between a 15% and 25% death rate amongst those infected.
- J
- KICK BACKS :- lots of opportunities for making money on PPE ( Baroness Bra ) and for Big Pharma.
- LOCKDOWNS :- seemed like a good idea at the time, but at what long term cost and consequences?
- MASKS :- doubtful whether the cloth ones really worked.
- NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALS :- can be built very quickly,but are useless without staff.
- OLOGY :- in an epidemic get yourself any kind of ology and you can be on tele as an ‘expert’.
- PARTIES :- no better time if you are a politician and the rules don’t apply to you.
- Q
- R :- the all important number on everyone’s lips 💋
- SCIENCE :- based on fact, what can possibly be wrong? But of course if you don’t have the facts you just have to speculate with a model. They can be spectacularly wrong.
- TESTING :- would have been useful to trace infected people at the outset, but we got them too late to be of use.
- U
- VACCINE :- the answer to everyone’s prayers ?
- WUHAN :- Where it all started ? But Mrs Hallett didn’t look into that.
- X
- Y
- ZOONOTIC :- one of the many newspeak words falsely used to blame much maligned Pangolins for spreading Covid
Even after four years of legally faffing about we are none the wiser and nobody has been found to be responsible for any failure. More importantly we are no better prepared for the next pandemic !!!!!!!!!!
P.S. please fill in the blanks with your own recommendations 🤡

