had my dad died from something else, say, cancer, people wouldn't be coming to me and saying, "well, was it really cancer?" this inquiry is not, though, just a review of the past, but has to ask how to better protect the country in the future. professor woolhouse was and is a vocal critic of many blanket lockdown measures. 0n the scale of potential pandemics, covid—19 was not at the top. it may be that next time, and there will be a next time, we are dealing with a virus that is much more deadly and is also much more transmissible. in which case, actually, the things we did to control covid—19 wouldn't have worked anyway. i'm not sitting here as a doom monger or saying this is going to happen or this is going to happen soon. but i am confident enough to tell government that this is something you should be concerned about. the inquiry�*s next phase examines in detail the decisions made