At Conservative Woman:
On Tuesday, Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10 who served under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, wrote in the Times that, having fought a full lockdown and lost, she went on to fight the small battles she could. Some, such as support bubbles for new mothers, she won. Others she lost.
As we prepared the road map out of lockdown in 2021, I and others pushed again for a policy that had been discounted previously because infection rates were so high: to allow bereavement support bubbles for those who had lost close family, suffered miscarriage, the stillbirth of a child or neonatal death.
‘It was worked up as an option for Step 2, the transmission impact would not have been significant, and it was included in a submission to the Prime Minister. Three days later it was unpicked.’
In many ways there really is nothing to add.
When it's all done and we're looking for those to take out, tar and feather, the "decision makers" who acted with callous disdain will be at the forefront. They acted without human decency. Errors of judgment and incompetence, endemic to govt - thay're one thing. Lack of human decency is quite another.
The whole panicky (nearly worldwide) over-reaction to a flu bug, man-made or not, has been instructive - there's only a thin veneer of rationality covering the worst of human behaviour, as we've seen from people we elected and expected to cope with whatever comes along.
ReplyDeleteI'll never fully trust a medic or politician again, or at least before the vile perpetrators of the insane restrictions and economic damage have been brought to justice.