Davidhs You're missing the point. I'm not qualified to judge whether mistakes were made, especially in the delays on lockdown, although I suspect they were. The point is the responsibility for delaying lockdown. Somebody claimed that Dominic Cummings argued for an earlier lockdown - if so, why isn't he shouting that from the roof now?
The government is claiming that it followed "the science", a group of supposed experts, but did it? I don't know the answer to that, but it does seem that the politicians have found themselves a scapegoat. But what if "the science" was actually being influenced by the government all along and wasn't actually independent advice?
It appears that SAGE has now been forced to be more publicly accountable by the pressure being put on it. Nobody would expect MI5 or MI6 to be transparent, but SAGE? What advice is it giving that's so secret? What happened to the "will of the people"?
Is Marc Warner's contact tracing app really the best way to stop the spread of infection? What about the 18,000 contact tracers people are saying are needed? Unfortunately, the people who would be best placed to do that aren't there because local public health services have been decimated.
It's always going to be a balance between losing lives and the needs of "business", so how are those decisions being made? What are the facts? How many lives is it estimated will be lost if shops and schools reopen? Who's making the decisions that the balance is right? On what basis? What part did "the science" play in the decisions?
Too many questions remain unanswered and there's too much scope for a blame game. The public deserves transparency.