It’s 100% the responsibility of Government to ensure the nation is prepared to tackle a #pandemic to the best of its ability. Exercise #Cygnus uncovered gaping holes in preparedness in 2016. By failing to address those findings, the Government have failed the nation #COVID19
I think it’s also important to understand what we mean by preparedness. Some stockpiling is warranted, but I don’t think anyone would expect a Government to have 50,000 spare ventilators in a warehouse. The point of preparedness is to have ready to go “off the shelf policies”
For example, this would mean policies are already in place between Government, private industry & other nations to suddenly ramp up production of essential equipment like ventilators & PPE. And economic policies are enacted to address mass unemployment & struggling businesses etc
Unfortunately, it is clear that this Government was much more focused on austerity and Brexit than addressing red flags on risk registers. This is unforgivable. This Government and many others around the world have failed in their primary duty protect the lives of their citizens
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