This week, an inquiry into COVID is about to start. I think that it is fair to remind people that despite the warnings of Exercise Alice and Exercise Cygnus, the nation was not prepared. As noted on the video above, we did not have enough PPE and contracts were handed out to people who on too many occasions, did not deliver. Thanks to cuts before the pandemic, our ability to test for COVID was insufficient.
People still compare COVID to influenza. Influenza does put the NHS under considerable strain, but not like COVID did in the pandemic. People forget what happened in Italy and too many people are not aware that our funeral homes were overrun with corpses, this despite the extra capacity that they built for the pandemic.
Hopefully, the government will not be able to hide evidence from the inquiry and this will provide many with the answers that we can learn from so this does not happen again.
