It is worth remembering that the death rate in this country has been pretty well the highest relative to population in the whole world - and massively higher than any other island.

Maybe delaying introducing lockdown, and relaxing them early, which seems to have been government policy throughout, were in no way factors in that high death rate.   Those were the calls made by the Prime Minister.

On the other hand, the one outstanding success of tge pandemic, the vaccine programme was the achievement of scientists technicians, NHS staff and volunteers, and the good sense of ordinary people, who ignored the attempts of ordinary people, and came for their jabs.

But in any case, that's talking about the past. A very much delayed inquiry into what happened is due to come this year which will help in finding out the truth about those kind of issues. The important thing is to be as ready as possible for whatever may be coming.