It's natural to feel worried and anxious about the future right now. The last thing we want to hear is more bad news. This article isn’t exactly that. It's more of a warning. A warning to say that a tsunami is headed our way. This pandemic is more like an earthquake than a state of war; we have to start preparing for the aftershocks.
This is not an argument against the lockdown. We need to prioritise saving lives and stick with the lockdown. I’m not writing this because I want shops and businesses open immediately. I’m writing this because we need to prepare for what’s coming, because our governments sure didn’t.
Last weekend, both the Sunday Times and the Observer set out in detail how the UK government missed warnings and failed to adequately prepare the NHS and its workers – let alone the public – for the coronavirus. But that’s only part of our problem. They didn’t prepare to support the economy and freeze it during lockdown either. And we are about to pay the price for the lack of preparation.
