Have read much of the report now. There's lots that's good in here. But a private review of a public health…

Have read much of the report now. There's lots that's good in here. But a private review of a public health emergency says everything that's wrong with the Western Covid response. Failures from 2021-on are mentioned but not really diagnosed. /1 https://t.co/OuMY729RlQ

The same processes that blocked action against climate change also blocked effective action against Covid, but you won't get that from this report, except in very general talk about the response being too 'political'. What's happened can't be understood as just some gaps in.../2

...public administration. It was an all-out assault on public administration, on the notion of the 'public' itself. By a political belief system that doesn't even deny that's what it was doing. 'Getting government out of peoples' lives'. 3/3