The UK had no plans for meaningful virus spread reduction. The UK had therefore not aimed for a response that considers the effects of measures on people.
Carers isolating were on unpaid leave:
‘Instead of taking the risk assessment as a prediction of what could happen and then recommending steps to prevent or limit the impact, it proceeded on the basis that the outcome was inevitable,’ Hallett says.
In the UK, ‘how did we get into a situation where no one involved in pandemic planning questioned the assumption that almost a million deaths were acceptable?’ asks Pagel.
‘When the pandemic hit, the values that informed pandemic strategy and policy were not stated & nor is it clear whose values they were, the government, the health secretary, parliament, the public?’ writes Pagel.
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Pagel writes at her substack about the Module 1 Report by the UK Covid Inquiry:
The effects virus measures have on people were blanked out