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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
What’s Andrew’s point? That we would have had a better Brexit if Covid hadn’t happened?
Or: weren’t the EU countries lucky in dealing with Covid in that they didn’t have to plan for no-deal Brexit?
So far as I can see, many countries around the world implemented lockdown because Covid was unknown as to clinical outcomes, it was particularly contagious and there was no vaccine.
As it turned out, there was very little difference in behaviour and outcome between the European type countries.
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Our plans for Covid were inferior to many other countries' and the enquiry found that government and civil servants were distracted by planning for a no-deal Brexit. With better Covid planning from not planning for a no-deal Brexit, the economy would have not taken such a hit.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Wow, that's a stretch. It's because of Brexit we locked everyone down, closed schools, payed people to take up pottery and crashed the economy that our great grand children will still be paying for it?
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Not a stretch, the Covid 19 enquiry found the state’s attention was distracted from potential public health crises by planning for a no-deal Brexit.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
What’s Andrew’s point? That we would have had a better Brexit if Covid hadn’t happened?
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Close but I can't award you any points, Seph. We would have had better management of Covid if planning for a no-deal Brexit hadn’t happened.