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In his testimony to the Covid inquiry, the chief clinical adviser scathingly criticised Boris Johnson. As a classics graduate, the prime minister didn’t understand what he was being told: “he clearly deceived him. “
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, in his testimony today, was less critical. He said the operation around the Prime Minister was “chaotic” but the way he made decisions was “unique to him”, and he believed other governments faced similar problems.
Vallance said Johnson was and occasionally replaced his mind, and his testimony underscored his dissatisfaction with Johnson’s approach. However, lack of determination is not a sin; Boris sought to perceive a wide diversity of evidence and apocalyptic scenarios proposed through the Modelers. He seemed flexible in his thinking and reacted to emerging evidence.
And he’s not the only one replacing his mind. Jenny Harries told The Telegraph that next time Britain might look more like Sweden. At the beginning of the pandemic, he said face coverings were not a smart concept for the public because they may simply “catch the virus” and spread it further. Then he turned around. Again, in March 2020, Harries deemed mass testing “unnecessary. “
Vallance also seems to have forgotten that he sparked a huge controversy when he said in March 2020 that the government aimed to “create some sort of herd immunity so that more people are immune to this disease. “
Love it or hate it; It begins to look like Boris’s position is totally moderate in the face of chaos. For example, Johnson wanted to know if the number of infections translated into deaths, suggesting that infection curves stick to a “natural pattern” regardless of the interventions that are implemented.
Faced with a SAGE committee that lacked the capacity to take a broader view, Boris showed a rare willingness to question whether containment was a favourable policy or whether there were risks. Whitty said he was more focused than others on the government’s recommendation on oblique effects on physical fitness, noting that restricting freedoms has effects on intellectual fitness, schooling and well-being, among others. But over time, the mantra of “following the science” has a stone hanging around the neck of advisers, Whitty said.
If this research has shown anything, it is that the concept that decisions deserve to have been left in the hands of experts is false; Science, economics and politics want to be taken into account. And as for Boris, he comes out on top with some credit. He was right that scientists were concerned with many things, such as death charts and apocalyptic predictions from modelers. He was right to question everything. And he did well to look to reflect on the blind panic that plagues those around him.
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