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1 hour ago, Netan Sansara said:

This thread reminded me of Deepti Gurdasani who was a big name. Let’s see what she’s up to…oh kicking about in a £800 face mask to avoid covid. 

 

I remembered seeing this a couple of weeks ago:

A seriously unwell person. 

 

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5 hours ago, Michael W said:

I remembered seeing this a couple of weeks ago:

A seriously unwell person. 

 

I can't believe she was seen as a credible scientist during COVID years and she would still have us in lockdown or wearing £1000 respirators / facemasks and only socialising outside. She definitely needs some mental health help it seems from what I see posted on here / Twitter.

 

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5 hours ago, Shannon said:

I can't believe she was seen as a credible scientist during COVID years and she would still have us in lockdown or wearing £1000 respirators / facemasks and only socialising outside. She definitely needs some mental health help it seems from what I see posted on here / Twitter.

 

Like I said during the lockdown, some of these people don't seem to realise that everyone of us literally risks our life every day in one form or another.  If people were this anal about everything else they would never get in a car

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Without being disrespectful to anyone who lost a loved one................and I know some of this is a statutory requirement, but it all feels a bit drawn out and unnecessary (not just up here, but in England as well)?

  • The relatives are going to learn nothing new as all the politicians have covered their arses
  • Again, without being unkind, a lot of people in care homes may have died of something else like flu
  • Nobody will go to jail as a result of their ineptitude

The only people who will make money are - as usual - the legal profession. I did some work in the (big) house of a KC, and she was on this inquiry (via zoom or teams) full time, doubtless on a rate no less than £500 a day.

All that is going to happen is that we learn our leaders made mistakes, say that they would have done it differently, and promise not to do it again - all at a cost of hundreds of millions to taxpayers.

Did I mention I think its a waste of time?

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I think it's important to have a public record that shows them for the duplicitous liars they are.

Who can forget the whole follow the science narrative except for when it fitted their agenda.

The bizarre tier system that was ignored when it didn't suit their agenda.

The damage their decisions made to the education of kids in this country.

The damage done to people's mental health.

The grinding to a halt of the NHS which will never catch up.

The damage done to businesses especially in the hospitality sector.

The patronising lies we were told time after time by idiots like Leitch and Devi.

An absolute shambles and to round it off they've deleted all their messages.  Pathetic.

 

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, Aubrey Maturin said:

I think it's important to have a public record that shows them for the duplicitous liars they are.

Who can forget the whole follow the science narrative except for when it fitted their agenda.

The bizarre tier system that was ignored when it didn't suit their agenda.

The damage their decisions made to the education of kids in this country.

The damage done to people's mental health.

The grinding to a halt of the NHS which will never catch up.

The damage done to businesses especially in the hospitality sector.

The patronising lies we were told time after time by idiots like Leitch and Devi.

An absolute shambles and to round it off they've deleted all their messages.  Pathetic.

I dont disagree with any of that.

But its frustrating that we appear to need to spend millions (probably hundreds of millions) to rubber stamp what you just said.

see also  - Edinburgh Trams inquiry (which, again, just told us what we already bloody knew !).

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21 minutes ago, Aubrey Maturin said:

I think it's important to have a public record that shows them for the duplicitous liars they are.

Who can forget the whole follow the science narrative except for when it fitted their agenda.

The bizarre tier system that was ignored when it didn't suit their agenda.

The damage their decisions made to the education of kids in this country.

The damage done to people's mental health.

The grinding to a halt of the NHS which will never catch up.

The damage done to businesses especially in the hospitality sector.

The patronising lies we were told time after time by idiots like Leitch and Devi.

An absolute shambles and to round it off they've deleted all their messages.  Pathetic.

 

 

 

 

Churches can open but nothing else.

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46 minutes ago, Leith Green said:

Without being disrespectful to anyone who lost a loved one................and I know some of this is a statutory requirement, but it all feels a bit drawn out and unnecessary (not just up here, but in England as well)?

  • The relatives are going to learn nothing new as all the politicians have covered their arses
  • Again, without being unkind, a lot of people in care homes may have died of something else like flu
  • Nobody will go to jail as a result of their ineptitude

The only people who will make money are - as usual - the legal profession. I did some work in the (big) house of a KC, and she was on this inquiry (via zoom or teams) full time, doubtless on a rate no less than £500 a day.

All that is going to happen is that we learn our leaders made mistakes, say that they would have done it differently, and promise not to do it again - all at a cost of hundreds of millions to taxpayers.

Did I mention I think its a waste of time?

I think you underestimate how much decent lawyers charge.

Apart from that you’re bang on.

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1 minute ago, Left Back said:

I think you underestimate how much decent lawyers charge.

Apart from that you’re bang on.

Aye, you are probably right. No doubt a chunk of the Edinburgh legal profession will be looking to buy another weekend property in Elie, or maybe a ski chalet from the profits.

Fucking leeches.*

 

*takes note to up hourly rate when working for lawyers......................

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16 hours ago, Netan Sansara said:

This thread reminded me of Deepti Gurdasani who was a big name. Let’s see what she’s up to…oh kicking about in a £800 face mask to avoid covid. 

 

Lucky her, I've been asked to take my specs off at security.

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I think having an inquiry into the management of the pandemic is a worthwhile exercise. It was probably the biggest event in terms of the immediate impact of government decisions since the Second World War.  It’s surely worth investigating what happened rather than just hand waving it away.

One impact that this has immediately is it changes politics. Boris Johnson could have said “we made mistakes but it was an impossible situation, we did the best with what we had” and brazened it out but from the inquiry we know how incompetent they were, how they didn’t understand the advice they were getting and how they couldn’t run a proper co-ordinated government. We now also know that Nicola Sturgeon lied bare facedly during at least one of her addresses to the nation when asked about her messages being given to an inquiry. I think it makes it far less likely that the SNP will go into the next election running on their Covid record. 

These things help the voters hold politicians to account, a lot more than “they’re all the same cynicism” will. Presumably the people who think we should all just forget and move on think the same about Lady Mone and her involvement?

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