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Originally Posted by denphone
There is such a thing as planning in advance of something instead of waiting until the brown stuff hits the fan..
You plan for events even if a certain scenario does not come to fruition.
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There WERE plans in place. They've been publicly available for some time. Eg There was £100m of items held in stock preparing for a possible pandemic.
The snag comes when you(and everybody else) rely on replacements from China, where not only were they badly affected themselves, but there is a long delivery time to ship large quantities by container ship.