The Hallet Inquiry: lockdowns are a failed experiment, according to the Welsh First Minister

Language matters

The BBC reports that Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said local Covid lockdowns were a “failed experiment.”

He could have said it was a failed policy or intervention, but Drakeford chose to say lockdowns were an “experiment.”

An experiment is a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery and test a hypothesis. 

However, at the time, lockdo…