Jonathan Sumption is a former Supreme Court judge and last year’s BBC Reith Lecturer.
The situation seems familiar....
Posted on 06/22/2020 7:37:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Does the Government have a policy for coronavirus? Indeed it does. In fact, it has several. One for each month of the year, all mutually inconsistent and none of them properly thought through. Sometimes, governments have to change tack. It shows that they are attending closely to a changing situation. But this crisis has exposed something different and more disturbing: a dysfunctional Government with a deep-seated incoherence at the heart of its decision-making processes.
The root of the problem is the uncomfortable relationship between the Government and its scientific advisers. The Government has repeatedly claimed to be ‘guided by the science’. This has in practice been a shameless attempt to evade responsibility by passing the buck to scientists for what are ultimately political, and not scientific, decisions. Scientists can advise what measures are likely to reduce infections and deaths. Only politicians can decide whether those measures make sense in economic and social terms too.
Sage, the committee of scientists advising the Government, has been very clear about this, as the minutes of its meetings show. They are not willing to become the Government’s human shield, or the fall-guys for its policy misjudgments.
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Jonathan Sumption is a former Supreme Court judge and last year’s BBC Reith Lecturer.
The situation seems familiar....
Peter Hitchens has cited Lord Sumpton as a source of reality in the midst of the insanity.....
I stopped listening to the “experts” about covid almost immediately.
Pip, pip and all that sort of rot.
If I don’t have it and you don’t have it, why are we wearing masks?
They will do this not for our protection against risk, but for their own protection against criticism".
Sounds like a man after my own heart!!! 8>)
But, but, Fauci!!
The Federal policy is that each State is to formulate their own plan and the Federal government will provide back-up. That sounds pretty clear and passes Constitutional scrutiny as well.
That’s easy - “Because Science”.
It’s about time the British government follows the constitution too.
“It’s about time the British government follows the constitution too.”
Fat chance. They’re the reason the document exists. And they still don’t admit wrong on that one.
rwood
We are quietly and quickly moving toward no buying and no selling without a mask; the new version of ‘mark of the beast’
“the new version of ‘mark of the beast’”
666-3M....the Mask number of the beast!
Wonder if the beasts will all have the virus stopping N-95 mask version ???
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