Spot on.
People can agree or disagree with the government and its official agencies on the various numerous specifics of the handling of the coronavirus, up to and including yesterday’s decisions. But whether you, or I, agree with individual choices that have been made – and I’m sceptical of more than a few of them – isn’t the point of this post, which is about the serious lack of transparency of official advice etc through this period of wrenching dislocation, in which lives were at risk, civil liberties shredded, the ability of people to earn their living badly disrupted, Parliament suspended and so on. Perhaps most or even all those decisions were the right ones – something that will probably be debated for the next 100 years, as aspects of the 1918 flu or much about the Great Depression still is- but no one can argue they were normal, routine or…
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