A leading medical journal has questioned whether governments’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is tantamount to “social murder” ...

A leading medical journal has questioned whether governments’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is tantamount to “social murder” – and something which politicians should be held accountable for.

In a highly-charged editorial in the British Medical Journal, executive editor Dr Kamran Abbasi says leaders must be answerable for their failures “by any national and international constitutional means necessary”.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Language like that will help no-one and I can't help thinking that's the writer's political rather than medical views.

Of course it it is right to scrutinise the Government's handling of the pandemic and it does have tough questions to answer. Not though merely to find illusory scapegoats in a spirit of vengeance, but so we may work out how better to handle the next epidemic or pandemic.

Yet that must be done in a proper manner, not by inflammatory editorials in trade-magazines (or "social"[?]-media).

Does this editor not know there is a Public Inquiry in progress to do just that?