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2020/10/22

The Daily Mail reported (13 October) that the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration profoundly disagree with the assertions made in Parliament about the protection against Covid-19 likely to be offered by "herd immunity" - the health secretary is criticised for 'not having a basic understanding of infectious disease'.

Perhaps they are being a little hard on him; after all, he is only the (temporary) minister in charge whose speciality is likely not in the field of epidemiology - isn't he relying on his civil servants to give him appropriate advice?

Or perhaps it isn't thought appropriate for a minister of the Crown to display a little less arrogance and perhaps more humility?

Either way, it does illustrate the dreadful dysfunctionality that seems to permeate our parliamentary system.