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…