UK Covid-19 Inquiry has some potentially wide sweeping conclusions to draw

Amid the UK Covid-19 Inquiry one thing stands out: China smashed it!

If UK matched China's average performance we would have had 273 deaths instead of 232,112. Obviously crude measure not taking into account demographics and population density but its hard to mask that China's government smashed this while the West completely failed.

Detractors will probably have their Western brainwashing highlight doubts over the truth of China's COVID claims. But China is not alone in lying it is something that the West does pathologically. It could be that the West's figures are even less reliable than China which makes this all far worse.

I suggest this highlights how fragmented, "unjoined up" and ineffectual Western governments have become under Capitalism.

But it also highlights just how ineffective Capitalism is to deal with real problems. No where in the West did any private investors or private industry help. And even when they did a year late with vaccines it did not save lives like the Chinese somehow managed. Although note even private vaccine development from Pfizer was done with public money. The private Capitalist financial system was unable to respond to this.

Hopefully the UK Covid-19 Inquiry will draw the deeper conclusions about our whole economic and social model that were highlighted in the C19th and heeded by countries like China.