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FPT

I am finding it very hard to get het up by the Covid report. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Yes we know that shagger was the worst possible leader in a time of crisis. But good men, better men, competent men are also just as capable of inaction when faced with "that can't be right" data.

I am more interested in what we can change next time than calling for vengeance against people who have long since been booted out of office.

I think most of us could have predicted most of that report about five years ago.

Politicians all crap, civil servants all wonderful, no lessons to learn, now write the nine-figure cheque for the lawyers writing the report please.

Now, if they could produce a report from the perspective of something like a transport accident investigation, going into detail about what led to the decisions that were made, what might be done differently next time, and with comparison of approaches taken in other countries, that one might be worth reading.

Yep - lessons can be learnt, doesn't help when you don't say what bits looking backwards could be used to implement restrictions earlier.

without that information and without knowing what else works we could well end up implement restrictions for 45 of the next 0 pandemics.

Read the report. Sandpit’s characterisation of it is inaccurate.

The whole purpose of these reports should be to look at what were good decisions, what with hindsight were bad decisions, what would have been done differently today, what information is important, what information was misleading, how did the characteristics of this particular disease differ from what had been planned for, what processes could be improved, what can government do to be better prepared for the next pandemic than the last one…

There’s almost none of that in the report.

FPT

I am finding it very hard to get het up by the Covid report. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Yes we know that shagger was the worst possible leader in a time of crisis. But good men, better men, competent men are also just as capable of inaction when faced with "that can't be right" data.

I am more interested in what we can change next time than calling for vengeance against people who have long since been booted out of office.

I think most of us could have predicted most of that report about five years ago.

Politicians all crap, civil servants all wonderful, no lessons to learn, now write the nine-figure cheque for the lawyers writing the report please.

Now, if they could produce a report from the perspective of something like a transport accident investigation, going into detail about what led to the decisions that were made, what might be done differently next time, and with comparison of approaches taken in other countries, that one might be worth reading.

Yep - lessons can be learnt, doesn't help when you don't say what bits looking backwards could be used to implement restrictions earlier.

without that information and without knowing what else works we could well end up implement restrictions for 45 of the next 0 pandemics.

I am finding it very hard to get het up by the Covid report. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Yes we know that shagger was the worst possible leader in a time of crisis. But good men, better men, competent men are also just as capable of inaction when faced with "that can't be right" data.

I am more interested in what we can change next time than calling for vengeance against people who have long since been booted out of office.

I think most of us could have predicted most of that report about five years ago.

Politicians all crap, civil servants all wonderful, no lessons to learn, now write the nine-figure cheque for the lawyers writing the report please.

Now, if they could produce a report from the perspective of something like a transport accident investigation, going into detail about what led to the decisions that were made, what might be done differently next time, and with comparison of approaches taken in other countries, that one might be worth reading.