The uncertainty of Covid in the moral maze

Should our leaders be blamed for their pandemic misjudgments? Can we even recognise what these are?

Michael Buerk, chairing another Moral Maze

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze last week, we once again tackled the dilemmas thrown up by the pandemic. Being the Maze, we try to extract from a current event an underlying moral issue on which to test out the arguments, and on this occasion it was how to deal with uncertainty.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been — to put…