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It's a case of "plans are worthless but planning is essential". After the 2009 swine flu, the UK planned heavily for pandemic influenza, stockpiled millions of
by mantap 6y ago
It's a case of "plans are worthless but planning is essential". After the 2009 swine flu, the UK planned heavily for pandemic influenza, stockpiled millions of doses of tamiflu, etc. When the coronavirus came, instead of making a new plan for coronavirus they decided to just stick to the influenza plan, based on the reasoning that all pandemics are the same. Only, the two diseases are very different and by the time they realised that an influenza playbook wasn't going to cut it, it was way too late.
- lambdadmitry 6y agoI'm not sure where that narrative comes from. I certainly haven't seen any evidence for British response blindly following an influenza playbook. The closest I've seen was journalists speculating on twitter, but that's not an evidence. Neither is the fact that the UK was preparing for an influenza pandemic.
- mantap 6y agoIt comes from comparing the contents of the pandemic influenza planning documents to the actions of the government in the covid-19 crisis and noting the eerie similarity.
- lambdadmitry 6y agoCorrelation is not causation is all I can say.