To find all this COVID chat reprisal in the news so depressing

It wasn’t “batshittery” for the 223,000 families who lost loved ones.

“I genuinely think most did their best with the information they were given. And mistakes were made”

That’s not the findings of the report. It concludes that the lack of urgency overall in government was "inexcusable”.

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Look at the news @Crushed23. They’re currently giving us the verdict on the Gov response from the inquiry.

Having been in a job that required a lot of contact with Gov at the time, there’s an awful lot of benefit of hindsight being used in this verdict.

I genuinely think most did their best with the information they were given. And mistakes were made.

The covid enquiry has been going on for ages but they are currently discussing the shortfalls of the UK governments. Predictably, the investigation shows ‘1000!s of lives would of been saved if we had been locked down earlier’, but not long ago they talked about how detrimental and terrible the lockdown was for humanity. Devastating regardless for all those that lost their lives. I can’t help thinking they were damned whenever they started the lockdown depending what camp you were in regarding the pandemic. Nobody was ever going to say the government did a good job in covid as we all had crosses to bear through that time.

I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I honestly haven’t heard anyone talk about Covid in 4 years other than in a ‘gosh, do you remember that batshittery?’ way.

I’ve moved to the US and it’s even further removed for them as parts of the country (incl. my state) came out of lockdowns in 2020 and cracked on, whereas London - where I was living at the time - had restrictions all the way though to summer 2021.

Covid is just a period in history now, and soon there will be a whole generation of people who won’t remember it (most of ‘generation alpha’, born 2011-2025, have no memory of it).