Government risk reports warned of major pandemic since 2014

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Report from 2019 warned a pandemic could disproportionately affect older people, and place greater pressure on our health system

That year the report warned that a pandemic had the potential to “significantly disrupt economic and social life, with the possibility of energy and food supply shortages”.

The 2015 report warned the risk of a pandemic had become greater because the world had become more connected, which would “facilitate the spread of viruses”. The 2017 report said public information campaigns, vaccination programmes and public service continuity plans had “enhanced national resilience” to the risk of a pandemic.

 

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So why didn’t the government improve our health system and not keep letting it go to shit. Typical

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