Finding fault

It seems Steven Joyce (Weekend Herald, September 17) is desperate for a Covid inquiry. I am unable to figure out why we would bother with the cost and wasted time. We all understand pretty much what happened and how it affected the country.

Joyce has denigrated the entire health system by assuming they failed to learn anything from the pandemic; no one took any notes, no one measured results against inoculation rates or examined ethnicities, or did anything else to monitor how we were getting on.

Nevertheless, a group of lawyers or politicians or other noble persons at an inquiry would be able to put all those health professionals straight for next time.

Joyce was once Minister for Infrastructure in the National government. He failed to deal with critical infrastructure, particularly problems with health, education and policing that Labour spent massive amounts to rectify in the first days of their 2017 term. The health system and hospitals had been defunded and allowed to run down. Maybe that should be the subject of an inquiry.

Rex Fausett, Auckland Central.