We've created the perfect storm for this. 50,000 front line vacancies in NHS, and EU nurses and doctors leaving the NHS has gone up 20% in the last 4 years. Underfunded and understaffed. Would we have been in a good position to fight this? No, noone could have a health service that could deal with this. Would we have been in a better position? Undoubtedly
If we were in a better position to start with would we have needed as long a lockdown and so much damage to the economy? No as the capacity and therefore breaking point of NHS would of been higher