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Tuesday 12 October 2021

Government Slammed In Made Up Numbers Shock



Covid: UK's early response worst public health failure ever, MPs say

The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the worst ever public health failures, a report by MPs says.

The government approach - backed by its scientists - was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection, it said.

This led to a delay in introducing the first lockdown, costing thousands of lives.

As we cannot run the pandemic again under different policies we cannot possibly know if the policy pattern actually followed was optimal or not. Almost certainly not, but given the circumstances that is scarcely surprising. To claim that lockdown delay cost thousands of lives is worthless rhetoric.

We can reasonably maintain that policies followed were less than optimal in both political and cost benefit senses. In which case an earlier lockdown could have made things worse, but lockdown fans have simplicity and hindsight on their side. 

6 comments:

Sam Vega said...

And why are we bothering with a report by MPs? What do a group of people who are good at getting themselves accepted by party hierarchies and elected by the public know about this stuff?

dearieme said...

I particularly liked the intellectual precision with which they analysed the advantages of the Swedish response.

P.S. I made that up.

A K Haart said...

Sam - nothing is my guess at what they know about this stuff... although in one sense it could be less than nothing.

dearieme - yet Sweden must at least be a pointer to far less destructive options. Apparently less destructive is not an objective.

Doonhamer said...

Any mention of sweeping all older patients out of hospital wards, infected or not, back to join their pals in the Care Homes?
Then there is midazolam.

Tammly said...

So I hear that Swedish citizens are the most medically monitored people on the planet and hence Sweden contains the world's leading expertise in epidemiology. So why weren't our experts "following the Science"?

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - I haven't read it but it would be worth checking.

Tammly - good question and one I'm sure they would rather not answer.