The Best Laid Plans. COVID-19

First published on March 12, 2020
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We need a better Plan.

Before I start, I should mention I fall into four of the top five risk categories for COVID-19. I have family who are particularly at risk also. To be blunt, I have skin in the game. But this isn’t about me or you. It is about us all.

Updated June 16th, 2020: Please check out this daily blog being maintained by a Swiss Doctor on what is happening globally. It contains many links to support the below and the comments in the blog. https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/.

We are currently dealing with the largest global stressor ever experienced in modern history. Note I didn’t say pandemic or crisis. That would have been anything from World War I, II, Spanish Flu or countless other scenarios that have killed many millions. This has now developed the appearance of an uncontrolled pandemic. However, it had all the reasoning and information never to have become one. Was it ever really a pandemic? The panic and fear are real, but is the information used to create that fear and panic really all it is made out to be?

Right now, it is hard to rationalize what actions to take, but it is important to stop, think and realize that we need a better plan next time (and there will be a next time). This is now the fifth pandemic that is directly connected in just over two decades. This ignores many other global health threats that we have faced and overcome in the same time period.

We appear not to have learnt from how these previous pandemics were handled in the recent past. This is an occasion though where the saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana), is ironically turned on its head. Instead of following the lessons of previous outbreaks, we triggered a worse case scenario plan.

There are people in the world from First Responders to Government to Armed Services, who will recognize the ‘break glass in case of emergency’ plan that has been implemented by Governments at all levels globally. However, this plan was never designed for what we are dealing with now. It was designed to deal with a global emergency of catastrophic proportions and with it came government powers that should never be taken lightly.

We need a better plan

There are also professionals who deal with Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) who will recognize that this plan appears to have no nuances or layers. Those people understand that there can never be a ‘one size fits all’ for disaster planning.



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