Lessons for the next pandemic

Hyzepher

So once we come out of this crisis, what lessons do you think we'll have learnt to bring to the next expectant crisis?

For me;

1. Shut down everything much earlier - especially incoming flights
2. If incoming flights are necessary then test people coming off them
3. Enforce social distancing from day 1

Cuddlesworth

Close Chinese wet markets.

Wibbs

1) Stamp out all dodgy farming and animal husbandry practices worldwide wherever you find them.
2) Create a worldwide reserve task force of experts from many applicable fields. Involve the world's military as they're the best at logistics of moving people and materiel around.
3) Have constant research programmes into vaccines and antivirals. More likely government funded as business profits are low with that sorta thing until the crisis is actually happening.
4) Have greater reserves of PPE's masks, gloves etc for medical staff. They have loooong shelf lives. I'd add in PPE's for the wider population too, particularly for the vulnerable like the old the very young and the compromised.
5) Give more funds to orgs like the WHO. Have active members on retainer in places where this sorta thing is likely to kick off.

Wibbs

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Close Chinese wet markets.

+1, but not just in China C. They're all over the Far East. Bush meat needs to be stamped out too.