Which country was prepared?Says something about how well prepared we were doesn’t it?
You cannot prepare for every possible eventuality at government level. You can run simulations and possible scenarios for anything you like but it then comes down to a probability call as to what you spend your money on.
Can you imagine the outrage on here and other social media if they had spent millions/billions on renewing all of the stocks of PPE and buying in even more and a pandemic hadn't happened?
The same people on here hammering them for not spending the money now would have been apopleptic at the waste of funds that could have been used elsewhere. They would have produced example after example of where the money could have been better used and most likely found some article that 'proved' that 'out-of-date' PPE isn't actually out-of-date and could still have been used if needed, negating the need to replace it.
Governments, no matter the ilk, are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
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