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Originally Posted by Damien
Well yes. We didn't know this pandemic is coming now but that a flu pandemic might come at some point was known. It was seen as the most likely, highly damaging, risk to the UK in 2017:
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As I am continually reminded on this site, this isn’t the flu.
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We had a a Pandemic Response plan based on a Influenza type virus spreading
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as above.
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A plan which specifically mentions we will need the stockpile of PPE:
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A simulation of an influenza pandemic was undertaken in 2010, and if you read it the level of PPE used was lower. I.e just a surgical mask, not they full visor type.
https://www.journalofhospitalinfecti...376-9/fulltext
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So the Government knew a flu pandemic was one of the biggest risk to this country. The Government had a plan that mentioned they would need PPE. We had designed a system to have a stockpile of PPE. The Government were warned they didn't enough PPE just last year.
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There’s that word “flu” again.