2023-10-26
Baroness Hallett appears to be fulfilling her brief as Chairperson of the Covid Inquiry in spades, if the latest report from the Daily Sceptic is to be believed.
Of course there can be no countering of official group-think, especially when that same group-think may have led to unconscionable crimes by the said officials, but is not the very purpose of the enquiry to hear the real evidence and to follow that evidence wherever it may lead, even to uncover and demonstrate possible perversity in the group-think itself?
"In one of the most jaw-dropping interjections of the inquiry to date, Baroness Hallett ... pressed Sir Peter Horby, an esteemed epidemiologist at Oxford University, who had indicated that he believed universal masking was not a straightforward decision: “I’m sorry, I’m not following, Sir Peter. If there’s a possible benefit, what’s the downside?" "
As a demonstration of the razor-sharp legal mind, this may fall a little short.
Happily (for us if not for them) some good folk at the Cochrane Collaboration have volunteered to continue to monitor the Covid Enquiry and to report on further inconsistencies:
"We realise that this can be very resource intensive, so we need your help spotting any problems in the proceedings and helping us to get more subscribers, especially payers, to keep us going"
I confess that I initially read "payers" as "prayers" - and in fact I would suggest that they do indeed deserve both (not necessarily in that order) for willingly undertaking this necessary but unpopular task.
They, along with so many others in these turbulent times, need our support.
