Personal comment on Be Careful What You Wish For
A re-run of pandemic decision-making
When Carl sent me the first draft of
Be careful what you wish for
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Recently, we noticed that the UK Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, thinks he can solve the mental health problem with more support to get people back to work.
Several ideas sprung up in my mind.
First and foremost, a Cabinet Minister is shooting from the hip. I doubt whether he had taken advice from anyone who knows anything about clinical medicine before opening his gob - it was so reminiscent of March 2020 and what followed.
Second, here is an example of a deadly syndrome c…