Prosecuting UK politicians over Covid-19 handling

[DawnBreeze]

A group of lawyers in Spain are taking individual Spanish politicians (not the government as a collective) to court over their mis-handling of Covid-19 and the consequential 'manslaughter by recklessness'.

www.elmundo.es/espana/2020/05/11/5eb9883bfdddffd6578b462b.html

In France, Macron is facing similar accusations.

www.abc.es/internacional/abci-presentan-mas-sesenta-querellas-contra-gobierno-macron-gestion-crisis-sanitaria-202005131207_noticia.html

Should the UK public not be considering similar action against Boris Johnson and the UK Government?

His 'herd immunity' approach, delay in putting the country into lock-down, inadequate preparation despite advanced warning, and premature easing of lock-down restrictions, has and will cause deaths which were/are avoidable.

I’m not sure we should be considering this right now (still too much in the thick of it). I think we need to be considerably further along before it’s remotely possible to judge what was/wasn’t successful, and if decision making was found based on the science and international experience at the time decisions were made. That’s a huge amount if work, and I doubt we have the spare capacity to do it properly

And British processes are slightly different, so I expect there will be judicial review/s idc and that could open the way to later prosecution. Or not.

We'll know who got it "right" (or the least wrong) in a year or two - when the largest waves have been navigated.

I also don’t think we should be focusing on this now. I want the government and the scientists to focus on stopping a hard second wave (I do believe we will have a second wave). A lot of mistakes were made initially, concerts, football matches, Cheltenham etc. We didn’t lockdown early enough, the cobra meetings around the time everyone was coming back from Northern Italy, the care homes crisis - the list goes on.
I believe we need a full public inquiry - The Hillsborough one took over two years and this is going to be much bigger.
Also The WHO needs investigating - when exactly did they find out the virus was human to human transmission?