Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Sort of, yes - there is the story coming out of the royal mint yesterday where staff have designed one and are heading into production now.

Sounded very like politicising to me! If you believe that your "importances" paragraph represent things that we need to learn, I am so depressed. Do you really think no-one knew this before? The only area I would question is your need for disaster planning - I'm sure that the NHS has actually done such planning, but equally sure that they cannot actually fully resource them all upfront within any sensible budget given the number of possible disaster causes ranging from a variety of possible pandemics to nuclear holocaust
No the analysis was specifically how would the NHS cope in a pandemic, there was a report with recommendations for preparation and the government ignored it.

Quite like how the government despite having pre warning chose not to do what South Korea did and test everyone with symptoms, despite having plenty of time to plan and prepare for this. There are a lot of questions to be asked at the right time on the governments strategy and why it flipped so quickly!

Funnily enough the germans seems to have managed it.