Michael Gove suggests Covid was man-made but is slapped down by inquiry chief who says: 'We're not going to go there'
Daily MailJUL 2023
This report has found failings at every level of government for the COVID disaster. The world has known that pandemics are inevitable, but a lack of resources and preparedness led to unnecessarily tragic outcomes. By ignoring the scientists, pandemic preparations were unacceptably on the back burner. After COVID, the world must treat this threat as real and worthy of our utmost attention.
The story here is not one of an inept government stymying fearless scientists but of a failure on all levels. The inquiry faults scientists and the government for groupthink, as they rammed through untested lockdowns that did more harm than good. Perhaps there will now be some accountability from the "trust the science" manufactured consensus crowd now that the actual evidence is in.
There is a 50% chance that the the maximum global single-year death toll attributable to a single pandemic between 2022 to 2121 will be at least 34.5M, according to the Metaculus prediction community.