What a Covid inquiry will likely look like

Posted at 12pm UK time

Boris Johnson has been pushed into promising a full public inquiry into the Government's handling of Covid.

Boris Johnson has been pushed into promising a full public inquiry into the Government's handling of Covid and says that one will begin before the end of this parliamentary session. https://t.co/W4ttyt1Nst via @LD_Sceptics

— Michael Curzon (@MichaelWCurzon) May 11, 2021

But we must recognise that an inquiry that doesn't seek to understand whether or not locking down in the first place was the correct thing to do isn't an inquiry at all.

All that the Government’s inquiry will find is:

1. The first lockdown was introduced too late and should instead have happened in the first week of March 2020

2. We didn’t lockdown hard enough

3. The mask mandate should have been introduced immediately

4. A lack of PPE in the early days made the spread of the virus worse

5. Emptying hospital patients to care homes was a disaster.