So, there is an enormous imperative for us to learn as much as we can from our experiences of the last year. This pandemic was not unexpected. In my line of work, we had been expecting it, and worrying about it, for years. But it was not properly prepared for. It would be terrible to have gone through everything we have all gone through, and then find that the economic losses that have been sustained (and they will be enormous) mean that there is still no funding for pandemic preparedness. We need to make sure that when Disease Y arrives, we are better prepared for it than we were for X.
