People in Greater Manchester are finally being given their turn to talk about exactly what happened to us
Five years on from the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, people in Greater Manchester are being asked to share what happened to them. In March 2020, millions of people across the country watched Boris Johnson announcing the first national lockdown.
“We really want to hear from as many people as possible about their pandemic story,” Kate Eisenstein, the inquiry’s deputy secretary, told the Manchester Evening News.
“There has been a real range of perspectives shared,” said Ms Eisenstein. “Most of them are quite personal experiences. We frequently hear about some very positive things like I learned a new hobby, I had more time with my family, there were some stresses which slipped away. But we also hear about really challenging personal or community circumstances, mental health worries, fear about job security, feeling socially isolated.
There were also the political revelations that set the region apart. Bombshell moments at Covid Inquiry hearings in 2023 exposed how government committee was told that Greater Manchester deserved a 'punishment beating' with tougher Covid restrictions because of Andy Burnham's 'appalling behaviour' during the Tier 3 stand-off in autumn 2020
There are some people who never want to revisit the pandemic. But those leading the inquiry say it can be ‘cathartic’.
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