![]() ![]() Virtually the only practical advice given by Government was on how properly to wash one’s hands, after that it was go home and await orders. Mankind has had to cope over millennia with respiratory viruses and has learnt many lessons as to how to deal with them. In March 2020 all of this was forgotten and instead the approach taken by China, an autocratic one party state, was followed. The cornerstone of this was a lockdown where people were required to shut themselves in their homes. It seems unbelievable looking back on it and it would appear that no thought was given to the long term effects of this on everyone from children acquiring socials skills to the elderly spending their final years in confinement. Not forgetting, the colossal economic cost and the waste of having people perfectly able to work being paid by the taxpayer to stay at home. When reading it one has to cast one’s mind back to early 2020 when our politicians and many members of the public were filled with fear and hysteria of catching this unknown disease. Thank goodness those days have passed though in many ways there is now a bigger divide within the population. There are those who were always going for tests every time they had a sniffle who now regard it as little more than a mild cold to those who did what the Government told them to do and are still slavishly getting their boosters and wearing masks in certain situations. ![]() ![]() I recently submitted, below, to the Covid Inquiry a journal of the actions we took as a business to ensure that we remained open for our customers whilst making sure that our employees could work without risk of catching the virus. ![]()
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