Mirror Health Editor Martin Bagot says lockdown critics are exactly the people who made full lockdowns both necessary and unavoidable during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 Inquiry has reignited the fierce debate on the rights and wrongs of lockdowns.

Many commentators are now choosing to cherry pick quotes from its huge 760 page report to suit their pre-existing opinions, however the verdict of the biggest public inquiry in British history is clear - there would have been loss of life "on a scale that was unconscionable and unacceptable" if they had not been imposed. The NHS would have been truly overwhelmed.

However chair Baroness Heather Hallett was also clear that there is a possibility that full national lockdowns could have been avoided. They only became necessary and unavoidab

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