The vaccine and possibly exposure to covid may have given her some protection anyway. As you say people have different priorities in life and with covid we saw that if we're ultra focused on one problem, we inadvertantly create others elsewhere anyway.

Awful piece of journalism on a right leaning channel by a presenter who asks questions, gets answers but then cannot shut up and imposes her own view on top of them. She so obviously has an agenda that it was embarrassing to watch.

The guy is making a simple point in arguing for transparency in decision making, which is a perfectly legitimate argument to have. In normal times, and for many subjects, one that I would agree with. Not though when facing something like Covid, when a strategy needed to be devised and followed quickly and not debated over, whilst Rome burned. We needed everyone at the pumps!

However she didn’t even allow that point to be discussed. She wanted to accuse the government of suppressing information. Which was not the case. They wanted to emphasise what the plan was and for the messaging not to get diluted by debates about alternatives. They had had those debates internally and the decisions had been made. This was positive leadership. When the pervasive capacity of social media to spread misinformation is well understood a decision to try to restrict the messaging at a time of crisis makes perfect sense.

That was nothing new or unusual. Making sure the messaging helps us all pull together, even if some disagree with the direction, is normal at a time of crisis.

The time for reflection and lesson learning comes later, when the crisis is over. Which is what will happen with the enquiry and the books about the experiences.

That won’t, of course, stop people like this journalist pushing their own conspiracy theories or people who agree with them jumping on their band wagon.

Nothing to see here, other than the usual froth from the right.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

100% true.

Remember the same person guaranteed another lockdown still hasn't come and un vaccinated mass spreading with high death count.

Still waiting.

I noticed this person is still using the false numbers of covid deaths being 200,000 as well.

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Anyone remember WE calling for lockdowns to stop?

I certainly don't.

I do however distinctly remember him calling for severe restrictions to be put on the unvaccinated based upon the misinformation that they were dangerous while the vaccinated weren't.

He spent his time accusing others of misinformation when that was precisely what he himself was doing.

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Whether someone took a vaccination or not was always a personal decision and the the behaviour, threats and pressure from some were quite disgraceful.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Indeed, I still can't quite believe that our own government told people to 'stay home and save lives', when in reality they didn't know what they were talking about....they were punting....but because they are the authority figures everyone just took it at face value.....even though any examination of the policies made little sense as, in reality, most of the workforce carried on working because it had to.

As ever, because all the managerial class did the same groupthink there is a complete lack of self criticism and revisionism. They just don't talk about it, yet I can't see how any honest inquiry won't look at this rather severely.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)