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Covid-19: A wake-up call

BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2021 (Published 21 May 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m2021

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Re: Covid-19: A wake-up call. One simple suggestion, if I may

Dear Editor

We Brits would be better served, IF:

Each of our Ministers listed their errors - blunders.

Then said: I apologise.

Then said: Now I will do this and that to right the wrongs.

This requires humility, a willingness to learn from others (even foreigners who learnt so much from us when we were capable of teaching).

Puffing up our collective chests and shouting - "world beating ....” should now be given up.

Competing interests: Might develop the DIS ease.

01 June 2020
JK Anand
Retired doctor
Free spirit
Peterborough, England