| Good evening, So what do you think? Did the Government wait too long to push through lockdown measures - and how was the pandemic handled overall in those early days? Today, a damning report on the coronavirus pandemic, a report from MPs on the Science and Technology Committee and the Health and Social Care Committee, said the UK’s preparation for a pandemic was far too focused on flu - and slow to react to the Covid pandemic. In the 151-page study, MPs criticised the fact community testing was abandoned in March 2020 as a “seminal error”, said NHS test and trace was too slow and that thousands of people died in care homes partly due to a policy of discharging people from hospital without testing. In language lifted straight from George Orwell’s novel 1984, the Prime Minister’s former top aide, Dominic Cummings said “false groupthink” was prevalent in Whitehall. Meanwhile, the Health Secretary at the time, Matt Hancock, made a similar point about it being difficult to challenge the scientific consensus. It was inevitable there would be a tsunami of blame after the pandemic - but who on earth do we believe when there are so many axes to grind? Regards, Nicola | 
