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IT is very difficult to have a conversation with friends and family, to watch the news, or to listen to daily coronavirus updates without a growing sense of dread. The overwhelming feeling seems to be one of our respective governments reacting to events and making up their plans on the hoof which in turn lowers the confidence of the public in finding a way out of this car crash of a situation. Not once have I heard someone in authority saying we have already planned for this . Before I retired having spent a number of years working in the private sector as well as more than 10 years in the Civil Service, I would regularly participate in workshops where heads of discipline were brought together, presented with a disaster scenario – national power outage, catastrophic telecommunications failure and more – and asked to work through the steps needed to be taken in order for the business/department to be able to continue to trade. The output from these workshops was vetted by