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.