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A lack of state capacity cannot explain our Covid failures We must examine how a series of bad judgment calls have made Britain s crisis far worse than it needed to be 7 January 2021 • 7:00pm “You are going to learn more about your government and your society in the next few months than you learned in the last couple of decades.” Those words were written by Hong Kong-based journalist Mike Bird on March 11 last year, just before western governments started taking Covid-19 seriously. So what have we learned? It’s evident the pandemic has gone badly in the UK. With the exception of Belgium and Italy, we have the highest Covid death rate relative to population of any major country, beyond even the much-maligned United States.

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