That Covid report
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
MPs' report into the UK's early pandemic response is out – and it’s given Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan 144 pages of pause for thought. They tell listeners why it's simply not balanced on the collateral damage caused by lockdowns, and query the intentions of one of the document's authors.
Elsewhere, Allison has actually read Liam’s column in order to understand what’s really going on with the energy crisis, Liam dreams of a return to the seventies and the Planet Normal rocket makes a stopover at the cinema as our co-pilots review the latest Bond film.
And joining our Planet Normal rocket this week is Luke Murfitt, founder and CEO of Integrity Cleaning, who tells Liam how a diagnosis with Parkinson's aged just 34 has sped his life up rather than slowing it down, and how his business managed to double its turnover over lockdown.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | There's almost nothing in this huge report produced at Massive Public Expense |
| 0:15.0 | about the collateral damage of lockdown itself. |
| 0:19.0 | You know, with Parkinson's, what's supposed to slow down and hold you back? |
| 0:24.0 | I found it's actually speeding up and preparing forwards. |
| 0:27.0 | Tell you what, the reason we were so quick onto this, there's going to be a new intro to this content. |
| 0:32.0 | We're going to go back to the early 70s. It's because we want to go back to the early 70s. |
| 0:37.0 | Say what you like about James Bond, Haligan. He hasn't got a cervix, has he? |
| 0:42.0 | One. |
| 0:45.0 | We have a dog. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello. |
| 0:53.0 | And me, Liam Haligan. So we've had our first official report into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic co-pilot. |
| 1:01.0 | Britain must learn from big mistakes made by ministers. That's the conclusion of the House of Commons Health and Science Select Committees in this joint report. |
| 1:10.0 | MPs praise the UK's vaccine rollout and rightly so, but they're scathing when it comes to the protective ring. |
| 1:18.0 | Matt Hancock says he threw around care homes, given that care homes were flooded with elderly patients, shifted out of hospitals, |
| 1:25.0 | and in some cases, unfortunately, carrying COVID. |
| 1:29.0 | And now Matt Hancock's own protective ring has been breached, and he's no longer held secretary, that vital conclusion, |
| 1:36.0 | which will surely also be central to the upcoming public inquiry into the COVID pandemic, |
| 1:41.0 | has for now attracted less political controversy than it might. The overwhelming conclusion of this report though, Alison, |
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