Why Are There Demonstrators Outside The Covid Enquiry?

[dave50]

What are they wanting? It was an infectious virus that could be dangerous to the old and the vulnerable. People were obviously going to die, we can't save everyone. There's no point in moaning about it, it was inevitable. Accept it and move on.

[bookbinder]

The demonstrators don't actually want anything. They are taking the only course of action that is available to them, namely, to point out to Boris Johnson (and to any other involved persons) what they feel and think about the handling of the covid virus. They know that they won't be able to stand up in the enquiry room and say their piece, so they are making their feelings clear by standing outside with their placards.

[ToraToraTora]

They are like the hillsborough mob, they want to blame someone, anyone, it must be someone's fault in their eyes. The fact is no one can say whether they would have survived if the former PM had done some things differently.

[ynnafymmi]

Nicola Sturgeon made the same mistakes that Boris Johnson did.Both are gone now.Time to move on methinks.

[ToraToraTora]

The mistake was locking down at all and trashing the economy by creating inflation by printing £400bn.

[Deskdiary]

Careful TTT, that's heresy to the Covidians.

You're entirely correct of course, but they won't have it; remember, they wanted the lockdown to continue and they kept on talking about the "new normal".

I remember as though it were yesterday saying it was a mistake to lockdown and well and truly eff the economy up and the cure was worse than the disease, and was routinely called a Covidiot, selfish and a granny killer to name just three.

These people want their pound of flesh because their Aunt Doris died.

[Togo]

We were all victims of the pandemic in one way or another. These precious souls need someone to blame and an earthing rod to direct their fragile temperaments along. Some died because the lockdowns came too late, some died because the lockdowns were not stringent enough, some died because the health care provided was not good enough, some died because of their own shortcomings in looking after themselves sensibly, and some suffered greatly with mental health problems due to the non stop scare mongering and isolation. Perhaps the most affected by it all were the school children, who for the main part were not in grave danger(other than those with other serious conditions) who were deprived of their schooling and had their childhood trust betrayed. Of course if these attention seekers can whip up enough emotional instability like their own then someone can be blamed. Where there is blame there is compensayshun. This enquiry is stuffed full of lawyers and barristers, all making notes and drooling over the prospect of making claims on behalf of the "I deserve it" harpies, like vultures waiting for a corpse.  

[douglas9401]

Ooh look, another chance to trot out well worn garbage by the usual suspects.

[New Judge]

"The mistake was locking down at all and trashing the economy by creating inflation by printing £400bn."

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It is clear (from what little information of any use that has been revealed by the enquiry, beyond reams of idle tittle tattle) that there was no sound scientific basis upon which to order a lockdown. China did it and the rest of the world followed. 

Yes, fewer people may have died from Covid as a consequence of the lockdowns. But that is by no means certain because we don't know what would have happened had they not been ordered. However, the ensuing chaos that has resulted from them during and since their imposition has caused far more damage (and quite probably more deaths) than Covid would have inflicted. But the enquiry doesn't seem too keen (at least not yet) to explore that avenue.

People are demonstrating because they lost loved ones. It's understandable. But sometimes nasty stuff happens and to expect your government to prevent the spread of an airborne respiratory disease is simply foolish.

 

[ToraToraTora]

DD bang on, there were people like gromit on here loving it and praying for lockdowns to continue. The Jobsworthers has been given some power to boss us all about and were loving their time. Other countries did not lock down and fared no better. All the reposessions comming up can thank them for interest rate rises caused by avoidable QE.

[Canary42]

Wow, isn't Answerbank lucky in having so many experts enlightening us all.

[ynnafymmi]

Meanwhile the Chinese biological warfare scientists who started all this sheeit are walking around with a smug grin on their faces Canary.

[New Judge]

"Wow, isn't Answerbank lucky in having so many experts enlightening us all."

There are not too many epidemiological experts on AB (no tso far as I know). There are lots who were involved in outfits like "SAGE" three years ago. Th etrouble is they were listened to almost to the exclusion of anybody else. And there's the rub. Clsong down vast swathes of the economy for the best part of two years comes with costs. Those costs wee not properly considered when the lockdowns were ordered and for that we must blame politicians (not just Mr Johnson, because they all seemed to be of one mind). That's what needs to be investigated so that such far reaching diecisions are never again taken without considering all the likely consequences. We now have the benefit of that hindsight and the damage caused by lockdowns can be weighed against any possible advantages they may have provided.

To make a reasoned comment on what happened is not setting oneself up to be an "expert" and very often such decisions need input from people other than experts.

[Deskdiary]

You don't need to be an expert to be able to quickly realise what a dreadful mistake was made in locking down and paying people to sit on their backsides to eat Vienetta.

All that was need was a modicum of common sense and foresight which was something, if memory serves, you were sorely lacking in.

[andres]

^^^^They are not grinning much at the moment.  Too busy trying to work out what is causing the mysterious  illness  that they are now    having to deal with .

[andres]

^^^^@18.07

[ichkeria]

Of course a lockdown was necessary.

It's comments like these that make me sympathise with Boris Johnson. He had to deal with conflicting scientific advice, as well as people who wanted everyone sequestered underground for months, versus those who airily thought we could carry on as though nothing had happened.

[Deskdiary]

I was 'kind of' on board with the initial month of lockdown, but when it quickly became apparent, which it did, that this was a killer of the old and the vulnerable, there was no need to continue. Of course the old and the vulnerable should have been looked after (although I'm of the mindset the responsibility should have rested on them more than others and they should have taken whatever precautions they deemed necessary), but such was the rarity of a young healthy person succumbing that it made the national press.

[ynnafymmi]

@18.16.You think so andres.The Chinese elite(and their so-called scientists) dont give a damn for their own people,never mind the peoples of other countries.

[Togo]

Well said DD. Perhaps instead of spending £squillions on enquiries, and inquisition like blame laying, to find out what we now know the troooth seeekers should have just put up a questionnaire on the Bank. They would certainly learn more than they will ringing a bell in and echo chamber. Plus we wyuld not be shelling out to the legal services again. We are in dangerous waters when the lawyers can direct political events to their own end. Started by Bliar and his wicked witch of course.    

[Ellipsis]

> There are not too many epidemiological experts on AB (no tso far as I know)

 

There was this chap ...

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/members/theprof/