Spend Covid inquiry cash on those who’ve suffered in pandemic
Letter of the day
Regarding Tony Bleach’s Letter of the day on March 31 (We don’t need an inquiry and it’s not the time for pay rises) – what a good read, I agree with much of it.
In any situation (let alone a pandemic), enter all the critics, who from their comfortable positions offer ‘lashings and lashings’ of armchair criticism. They all know so well how things should be done or indeed, should have been done, with all the sanctimonious, puffed-upedness and surety they’ll never be in any position to make the decisions people in government or the NHS are having to make daily.
Granted, there have been some in government and elsewhere who've appeared questionably ‘up to the job’ and there have been instances of those benefiting financially through dubious contacts etc, but this pandemic is like nothing before.
The prospect of watching some selfsatisfied, smug-looking gits questioning the rights and wrongs of every detail of the pandemic, going on for weeks, to arrive at a God knows how-many-paged document, at a cost of God knows how many millions, is something no one needs.
So many public inquiries achieve sweet Fanny Adams. The premise for having them is to 'learn lessons’; so when I hear that overused phrase: 'Lessons must be learnt’, I despair, as for some reason we humans appear incapable of learning same.
If I had more clout, I’d start a movement to propose we don't have a public inquiry about Covid and the management of it. I’d suggest every pound that would have gone into an inquiry be spent helping those who’ve suffered as a result of this pandemic. But I’m just one among many...
Pat Huxtable Nettlestone Road, Southsea