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After Storm Eunice wreaked devastation in February 2022, Baroness Brown was interviewed on Channel 4 News and made this statement: "What we've dealt with as a crisis, needs to be routine."

Another pandemic? Far worse, a crop pathogen pandemic?

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Christina, the photo you reposted on Twitter of Sir Keir being the only person to take his cagoule gives me great hope that he will ensure we are better prepared for the next pandemic!

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Enlightening and appalling

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"When the pandemic hit, the values that informed pandemic strategy and policy were not stated and nor is it clear whose values they were—the government, the health secretary, parliament, the public?" writes Pagel.

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In the UK, "how did we get into a situation where no one involved in pandemic planning questioned the assumption that almost a million deaths were acceptable?" asks Pagel.

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"Instead of taking the risk assessment as a prediction of what could happen and then recommending steps to prevent or limit the impact, it proceeded on the basis that the outcome was inevitable," Hallett says. 📢♥️

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I also shared this article on Facebook, only for it to be removed.

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I tried to share this to Facebook and they removed it as going against community standards. WTF? Facebook's community standards do not allow assessments of public policy? Really.

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