Submitted on Thursday 2nd April 2020
Rejected on Thursday 21st May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Publish the findings of Exercise Cygnus. Admit gross negligence and stand down.
In 2016 we believe the government ran a simulation named "Exercise Cygnus" in which a hypothetical flu type pandemic occurred, i.e. What if something like the SARS corona type virus hit Britain. Such a simulation would have predicted catastrophic failures and hardship, just as we are now facing.
Given that this government ran this experiment themselves then the government new this could happen.
Seemingly nothing was done in the following FOUR YEARS to prepare for the events now unfolding. If the government knew this could happen with all its hardship and horror, not to put systems in place and aquire stocks of what we would need is an act of gross negligence.
Indeed, given the government expressly ran this exercise to find out, gross negligence seems too mild a term.
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