Without wish to do down various scoops, well done to all who broke them, but going to humbly suggest that maybe years of pandemic planning failure is worthy of more discussion than who attended which meetings in the last few months

The assumption that we were actually in a position to try a different course of action and had the resources for it to have worked seems to be somewhat questionable

I would also just say that in terms of the advice to govt, there is really quite a lot of published stuff and stuff said at press conf and it’s fairly easy to build a picture of, if not the actual advice, what the trade offs being weighed up were

In summary I don’t think Dominic Cummings told a room full of scientists “we‘re herd immunitying our way out of this bitch” while they all nodded in compliance, which I assume is becoming a thing