We are told that government is going to step up their response to coronavirus starting today. Good. An unprecedented crisis in modern times requires a totally coordinated approach. My thoughts on the high level actions needed... 
This is taken from my thinking on the big picture of coronavirus and government - a now simultaneous crisis of health, economy, social care, and globalisation... government as usual is not an option linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts…
A good article on why people are not panic buying - they are making sensible precautions. Government response has not kept up with the population so far and that needs to change if confidence is to be retained. ft.com/content/d6c65a…
And government needs challenge - because there are too many arguments which make sense in a silo but not in the round. If we don't test people how do they know if they had coronavirus or not? Which is kind of important for ever returning to normality.
The economic side of coronavirus is getting worse. I saw yesterday a suggestion of quantitative easing, but its money into the real economy we're going to need.
Easy to criticise leaders but they face an unprecedented challenge. I don't envy those top teams right now. But now is hopefully the moment they rise to the challenge, or create the space for others to do so. politico.eu/article/corona…
UK-EU talks are really not important or feasible right now. The UK government doesn't have the bandwidth. The EU doesn't have the bandwidth. Business doesn't have the bandwidth. Time for someone on either side to play grown up and call it. politico.eu/pro/eu-wants-z…
Not me. But "Pause the System" is pretty similar to my own thoughts. Or at the very least deprioritise anything that isn't obviously coronavirus related.
100%. And in any case "science-led" is not the way the handle a multi-dimensional crisis. For a start it assumes the science is unambiguous, which it isn't. "Science informed" most definitely. Combined with politics, economics, and so on.
On the benefits system and coronavirus, another issue needing resolving. It is hard to comprehend just how much of 'normal life' is going to have to change in the coming weeks.
Similar on the economic side of getting support to people...
How Denmark is handling supporting people economically during coronavirus... need to see more from UK.
Had been thinking that it probably wasn't as easy as 'just manufacture some ventilators' given these are safety critical pieces of equipment... remember, no simple answers exist...
It is probably a reasonable argument to say that if we had a leader of the opposition right now the government would be forced to up their game.
