The UK’s Covid Enquiry has published its second report, and its conclusion is as relevant as it is predictable.
To quote Sky News:
The response of the UK’s four governments to the pandemic was a “repeated case of too little, too late” and tens of thousands of lives could have been saved had lockdowns been introduced faster, the COVID-19 Inquiry has found
That’s all they were ever going to say, and it’s all we really need to know.
The full report is over seven hundred and fifty pages across two volumes, a Tolstoy novel of irrelevance.
This is the point of formal inquiries, months of quasi-meaningless testimony whose only purpose is to eat up time until the public memory has faded, then lend verisimilitude to the pre-written revisionist conclusion.
We already know the truth, and it’s a truth too big a for single sentence conclusion, five years after the fact, to rewrite.
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