COVID 19 LESSONS IDENTIFIED

It is not enough to establish the chance of something happening. It also matters what impact it would have if it did. Governments routinely ignore potential disasters because they are highly unlikely, without thinking enough about how disruptive and costly they would be if they actually happened. It is then often forgotten

Some sort of formal process — in which our preparation in Scotland for low-probability, high-impact threats was debated would help. Such a review needs to be supported by a Lessons Investigated Regime~ Bottom Up and Top Down.

Such a review process needs to commence now if lessons learned are to be effective for the future.

Why the contribution is important

Identifying COVID 19 lessons and then applying them is not new. Such an initiative was recommended by the WHO in 2018. The Economic, human behaviours and supply chain effects are just as important to capture as the medical implications . Line of Development for the LESSONS IDENTIFIED phase might be

a.  Health infrastructure and the delivery quality of  the Health system.
b. Economic considerations
c.  Social implications especially what is needed to make the general population more resilient
d.  Public/ Private partnering to deal with crises.
e.  Defence and Security implications
f Information Management and Messaging
g.  Criticality-  Who are our critical workers.  Do our CNI approaches need to be amended in view of experience
h.  How best to capture lessons and then how best to prosecute those lessons
j.  The role of the media.
k.  What is the critical supply chain in these circumstances. How can it best be utilised

Such a mechanism is already set up in New Zealand, part of Europe and elsewhere and a number of extremely well qualified individuals based in Scotland or globally in the fields of:

Leadership
Economics
Supply Chain
Political considerations
Behaviours
Corporate Businesses
SMEs
and the Future Society

Are willing to help the Scottish Government with this important initiative.

by mdfwarr on May 09, 2020 at 01:01PM

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  • Posted by Stephen666 May 09, 2020 at 13:59

    Risk Management, and the interdependence of different sectors is complicated but worthwhile. This sort of stuff is hidden from the public generally, typically by those in charge with their own agendas.
    The problem is that typically interdependence is analysed at the inception stage and not the concept stage, and has value but is limited. List of subjects required to be looked at is bigger by far.
    The essential conundrum is for the aspirational demands of any one sector, to be known by another sector(s), and vice versa.
    I think that the easiest way to do this is to take the GIS approach to regulating data input/output (Geographical information system) and to ask how would the other sector need to visually see on screen my sectors demands of them?
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