expect areas. you see it would be wrong to expect that areas. you see it would be wrong to expect that any future scientific adviser expect that any future scientific adviser would have specialist knowledge on political or epidemiological matters. given your no doubt epidemiological matters. given your no doubt fortuitous experience in medicine no doubt fortuitous experience in medicine and pharmacological matters did you medicine and pharmacological matters did you on medicine and pharmacological matters did you on reflection think that you played did you on reflection think that you played a did you on reflection think that you played a greater role in responding to this played a greater role in responding to this pandemic and perhaps you might to this pandemic and perhaps you might have done if you speciality had been might have done if you speciality had been different? i might have done if you speciality had been different? might have done if you
a good understanding of the impact on the nhs capacity. what i had a good instinct for was seeing what was happening elsewhere in the world and knowing having had a number of conversations with mr sweeney about the legislation that might be needed, the worst case scenario which worryingly was looking like something that might actually happen, but a worst case scenario, we hadn t done any of the planning, how people will get fed if they have to stay at home, what will happen to schools if people have to stay at home and it is those, you might expect my policy background as a domestic civil servants that is probably where my mind went to more than else. i probably still at that point fervently hoped that the planning we would have to do for that extreme scenario wasn t in fact going to be needed, but i really knew we had to get that extreme scenario actually worked up. we have heard ou scenario actually worked up. we have heard you describe scenario actually worked up. we hav