UK 2020: the bewildered leading the bemused

Alongside 2020’s prevailing emotions of fear and stress, is a growing collective bemusement. How can the UK have made such a dog’s dinner of dealing with COVID-19? Yes, it is hugely challenging, but few countries have handled it as incompetently as our government. Nor has the situation been as unpredictable as the government has made out. Back in 2016 Exercise Cygnus, a simulation of a flu pandemic, demonstrated…