Covid Inquiry - what's the point

Wibbles
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I see no point in the current Covid Inquiry.
Nobody is going to be found guilty of anything and it's going to cost over £100 million just to point out the bleeding obvious .......that money would have been much better spent on the NHS.
In the UK, more than 228,000 people have since died with Covid-19 listed on their death certificate - so the inquiry, alone is costing almost £450 per death !!!
Covid itself cost the country over £310 billion.
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Is this the enquiry to decide whether Boris had a cake on his birthday or is this a new one?
(Not that I agree with Boris and co. breaking Covid rules)1 -
It's to learn from it in the hope that next time there's a pandemic it will make us savings, or more importantly, save lives.
Since we're talking economics right now:
100 million is about 0.03% of the total cost that covid was. If the next pandemic is just as bad or worse, we can use what we learnt in the inquiry to act better next time. The inquiry is not a court, it is a fact-finding mission.
I dislike the idea of putting monetary cost or financial value on human lives personally.
edit: wow I got my percentage wrong at first, corrected.2 -
I think it costs something like £180 million each day to run the NHS, so amount being spent on this enquiry is pretty small and could potentially save the NHS a lot of money in the future if anything were to happen again.
Personally I've found the hearings really interesting. Infuriating, but interesting.
(personal opinion, I don't speak for Scope here of course.)2
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