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Well said!

It's amusing to watch people fume at Ben Irvine! He certainly takes no prisoners!

I don't think there will be any decent enquiries or investigations into the last 2.5 years. Too many people in all walks of life were involved. A fair amount of the public wanted to be scared and were happy to be paid to stay home and enjoy a nice summer of pseudo fear. People in the public eye enjoyed being interviewed about their belief in all the nonsense. The people who made the decisions will all have gone off with hefty pensions and directorships before any enquiry even starts. Any enquiry will target the little people who goose-stepped around and finally the statement will be "lessons will be learnt".

It's depressing how many people I know who are still regularly testing themselves and boasting about having covid again. Will they all queue up for booster jabs? Probably. It's difficult to believe you were played for a fool for over 2 years - easier to keep up your illusions of following the science.

As for the unions - they appear to have moved on to striking for better pay and conditions. I reckon they see covid restrictions as the dead horse not worth flogging any more. Bashing the govt over the economy will be the thing for a while.

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Thanks. Don't disagree... you will have seen the Hamilton quote (from the play, attributed to the man!): "to retract an error even in the beginning is no easy task. Perseverance confirms us in it and rivets the difficulty; but in a public station, to have been in an error, and to have persisted in it, when it is detected, ruins both reputation and fortune. To this we may add that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes". However, we must still try and hold them accountable. Otherwise we become - arguably - become complicit in the crime.

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Pcs union were, as late as March 2022, still trying to force restrictions on HMRC staff and served notice on that department stating in April that workplaces were unsafe. They have not given up yet. We have yet to get through a winter without restrictions.

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