"It was the first time the Covid inquiry had heard directly from Rishi Sunak and things went immediately awry for the prime minister: his claim in a witness statement that no one had raised concerns about a flagship pandemic policy was immediately contradicted by the government’s former chief scientific adviser.

 

Monday’s tussle over the “eat out to help out” scheme, in which Sir Patrick Vallance responded to an extract read out from Sunak’s statement, which has yet to be published, was arguably more embarrassing than damaging.

 

But with the prime minister scheduled to appear in person soon, the dangers are piling up. More and more details are emerging about the role of the man referred to disparagingly by one scientific adviser as “Dr Death the chancellor”.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/25/matters-of-life-and-death-sunak-faces-mounting-danger-at-covid-inquiry

 

Herd immunity and a ‘bamboozled’ PM: what we learned at the UK Covid inquiry this week

The inquiry heard evidence of threats against scientists, and more metaphors from Jonathan Van-Tam

 

Fri 24 Nov 2023

 

""It has been another busy and often enlightening week at the UK Covid inquiry. Here are some of the things we learned – or in some cases relearned.

Herd immunity was not government policy

This has been said before but it was significant to hear Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, set out how a nuanced epidemiological concept used primarily for modelling became so widely misunderstood – including by ministers – that it was widely mistaken for a policy goal.

 

Whitty said he urged people in government to stop publicly discussing a subject that they “half understood” at best, and explained how herd immunity as misunderstood by some – letting a virus run unchecked through a population – would have caused “an extraordinarily high loss of life”.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/24/what-we-learned-at-uk-covid-inquiry-this-week

 

The UK's Covid inquiry is the embodiment of the phrase "throwing good money after bad."

 

After the government p*ssed away countless billions of pounds on pointless measures and useless technology, they are now wasting hundreds of millions more on a Potemkin inquiry which is going to result in a 1000-page report which nobody reads but could be summed up as "Mistakes were made, lessons have  been learned, nobody was to blame, and we need more money for bureaucratic structures to help us tackle this better."

 

It's nothing more than a vast make-work project for bureaucrats glued onto an acquittal for all the public servants who perpetrated this ghastly damaging mess on the citizens.

Nice little distraction story for him to deal with.  This is easy work for him.  Talk about a Chinese lab leak from a time when no one had even heard of Mr. Sunak.

Rishi Sunak denies saying it was ‘OK’ to ‘just let people die’ of Covid

"Rishi Sunak has denied saying it was “OK” to let people die of coronavirus.

 

The Prime Minister was asked about a diary entry by Sir Patrick Vallance, who was the UK Government’s chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, that was shared with the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

 

The extract from October 25 2020 read that Boris Johnson, when he was prime minister, had argued for “letting” Covid “rip” through the population as ministers debated a second lockdown in England.

 

The same entry has Sir Patrick recording that Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson’s most senior adviser at the time, as having said: “Rishi thinks just let people die and that’s OK.”

 

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/rishi-sunak-denies-saying-it-was-ok-to-just-let-people-die-of-covid/ar-AA1kIQSZ?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=2024619585b148dedfa2d12263e5b394&ei=5