A new pandemic is expected and the UK still isn’t prepared
Posted by Yogizer
A new pandemic is expected and the UK still isn’t prepared
Posted by Yogizer
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I am here and ready to work from home again. Bring it on.
Wonder how that would even go, I can’t imagine public compliance would be even close to what it was in 2020.
A new one is expected? So much for one in a hundered year likelihood event then also is anyone surprised we aren’t prepared. (To be clear I know how probability works it doesn’t mean only 1 will happen every hundered years just that one is almost certain to, technically they can occur a year apart it’s just very unlikely. As such I don’t expect another one almost immediately)
I already WFH but I wouldn’t change anything else.
Not a chance throwing it all away again for a generation that consistently has a go at mine for being lazy etc when can’t afford a house while taking as much as they can from the state.
The government have no integrity left for the people to bother
This article is pure fear mongering. Theres a big difference between “expected” and “predicated”.
The article talks about a Professor Tom Koch predicting in 2020 that there could be another pandemic in 5-8 years. but I can’t find any sources other than there own website.
There own self reference doesn’t even state “5-8 years”, it states that “pandemics might to happen more frequently.”
So I’d take this entire article with a fist full of salt. They took liberties in the first article they wrote. And they are now taking liberties on the liberties they took in there own article.
Our living standards have plummeted because of the inflation caused by lockdown. We can’t afford another one – we’ve got to keep going.
Is it time to invest in a PPE company then? A lot of people got very rich from that one last time.
This is something worth investing time and money into, if we can invest billions in safeguarding against the of risk military action from other countries, we can invest a decent fraction into preventing/minimising similar casualties and economic destruction from disease. Last time we were caught with our trousers down, with an inconsistent and messy response. If there is a next time, we need a much more effective and palatable response.
This bullshit story comes up every couple of months to fill Sunday newspapers
The Government has learned that its one thing having a plan, and quite another putting that plan into practice.
Worse the Tories got it ALL wrong.
1) Treated No 10 as a night club, ignoring the rules they put in place for us.
2) Encouraging us to “clap for the NHS” instead of “Paying the NHS”
3) Creating local lock down rules that were vague, and seemed to favour profits over public health
4) Didnt close the airports
5) Created “VIP Lanes” which were little more than an excuse to give public money to their mates / donors.
6) Were too slow to lock down, or even stop large scale public evens in the first place. Thus creating a “Keep Calm, and Think of the Economy” mind set in planning.
The public are not going to want to listen to the Government in the future and that is a totally fair response. This has ruined any possible planning for a future pandemic.
Also 7) whatever happened to “Build, Back, Better”? that has not happened.
They blew it with covid. People aren’t gonna comply.
As long as I can have some furlough and time off this time.
We are prepared, just not how you would expect. It makes sense why you think a government would want to protect its citizens.
Can we do a switch so that all the people who actually had to work through the last one get paid to sit about this time instead?
I mean i’m not surprised, UK is never ready for winter and that happens every year.
Will work through it same as the last one while all the idiots who get to stay at home will be spouting their anti vaccine bollocks from the comfort of their living room again.
Atleast the roads will be nice and clear again
Here’s what I’d do:
– Shut down all borders including all air travel to delay the spread (the world is now equipped for this and we know it would save more money overall)
– Initiate wartime measures on the NHS immediately, max readiness, double everyone’s pay and a bonus for each 3 months they stay on
– Immediately order masks in crowds
What they’ll actually do:
– Start popping champagne and fingering each other in the cupboards again
Yea given how all the politicians had parties, meanwhile people couldn’t be with their dying loved ones in hospitals, good luck trying to get the public to obey any kind of protocol again.
There’s a “new pandemic” expected every couple of years and has been for decades. It’s scaremongering.
15 years ago it was “bird flu is going to kill millions”. 10 years ago it was swine flu. Then came zika and ebola and they were all going to devastate the earth, kill millions, bring down society as we know it.
The way shits going it’ll be measles and smallpox that starts doing people in – and it’ll be the fault of the antivaxxers.
The laptop class will love another one. They can sit at home ‘safe’ while the working and immigrant slave class humor them to allow it to happen. They can get their groceries, takeaways and Amazon parcels and live their lives without ever leaving the house.
2019 was just a simulation for when they release the real deal .
Haven’t they been fearmongering us enough with this line since COVID?
Just a rebranding of the flu; then include every death as a covid death.
If you think it will be bad in the UK can’t wait to see how badly it’ll go in the US where the official line now is vaccines are bad
Prepared for even more money laundering between MPs family and friends in contracts that don’t deliver value for money, or even viable, working items?
As a civil servant I’m here to be tribute again… I mean “key worker”