Virus ‘blame game’ must wait for pandmeic to pass – Yorkshire Post Letters

I THINK you (and others) are wrong in asking for an immediate review/independent inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic (The Yorkshire Post, January 30).

For it to be comprehensive the Prime Minister, Health Secretary, key figures in Public Health England and NHS, the chief scientist and front-line workers would need to be questioned.

I think they have enough to be dealing with at the moment. I’d hate to think any of them being taken away from the immediate crisis (which must require all their efforts and energy) to sit in an inquiry to answer questions and decide what lessons can be learned.

There will be time for that – and to plan for future pandemics – once this crisis is requiring less time and effort.

The situation now needs maximum attention and effort from all those key figures if we are to get through it. They are only human and must be allowed to concentrate on their jobs. In addition, I would argue we are all feeling defeated and tired and would welcome a break from endless media and social-media speculation and finger pointing.

Let us have time to recover and reflect before we start the blame game, please.

From: David Downs, Sandal, Wakefield.

I HAVE listened to Parliament’s opposition parties criticising the Government’s handling of the Covid pandemic. Yes, there is no doubt the Government will be shown to have made mistakes – but would Labour have done any better?

Let’s face it. Governments throughout the world are struggling with great difficulty to solve this problem and we should be grateful the UK is now out of the EU.

From: Robin Ashley, Sheffield Road, South Anston.

BARONESS Dido Harding, head of NHS Test and Trace, advised MPs there were 2,500 “consultants” working on “technical operational process systems” related to the Covid crisis.

I wonder how many of those are in Yorkshire or indeed the North of England. Perhaps someone can tell me where to apply?

Another example of the total and utter waste of taxpayers’ money, which seems to have no end.

Is it not time she was sacked, bearing in mind the system under her leadership has lurched from crisis to crisis?

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