Quote Originally Posted by Harry Lime View Post
There are those who couldn't visit loved ones in the final months of their life who rightly feel like he should be held to account. Sadly the time lapse has had an effect and I think swathes of the wider public do consider it to be old news. Apparently a recent survey concluded that a quarter of Britons think that the pandemic was a hoax. We live in a world of short memories and the only war that's being won is by culture war conspiracy nuts.
It was certainly exaggerated to frighten the public into silly rules, they were necessary until the vaccine perhaps, after that they should have been reduced much more quickly, but as you suggest it's easy to say that now in hindsight.