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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

Water industry 1995 The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. In 2016, a suspected Russian attack disrupted Ukraine’s electricity grid and cut power to about a fifth of Kiev in the midst of winter.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. In 2016, a suspected Russian attack disrupted Ukraine’s electricity grid and cut power to about a fifth of Kiev in the midst of winter. Water industry 1995.