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Feb 27, 2021 09:10AM

Sam I think the pandemic has underlined a few things. Definitely agree about the change in working, I think a lot of companies will decide that running costs being lowered by people working remotely may become permanent and it has since been shown to be a more efficient way of working, and the fear of micromanagement and people not working well from home has since been shown to be false. In some ways, this will highlight some regional inequalities, such as quality of telecommunications infrastructure rurally may affect people's access to these new remote working jobs and may provide pressure on the government to improve internet access and other infrastructure issues. The rollout of 5G may solve this issue by lessening the need to rely on physical networking.

The issues of China's initial covering up of the epidemic, and the following issues with vaccine nationalism, have further highlighted the practical difficulties with global governance and international cooperation, despite their necessity in dealing with these global issues. Exceptionalism and folly have frequently caused issues in government responses too, particularly here in the UK where we could and should have done much better, like the Prime-minister not missing 5 COBRA meetings before finally attending one in March. Trump in the USA seems like the perfect storm of bad leadership, and the US has seen the consequences in its numbers of cases and deaths. Lots of lessons to be learned from the good (New Zealand) the bad (Sweden) and the ugly (USA).

Also, without being too pessimistic, this won't be the last pandemic, I'd been expecting a pandemic flu strain to be the next one, and it probably won't be long before we see a new flu strain emerging. I hope by this time most governments will have learned the lessons and improved their strategies by then. I am personally looking forward to the UK inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic, and what we can learn going forward. It's definitely highlighted the difference that is made when you have the right person in the right place at the right time, and sadly what happens when you have the opposite too.


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