Oh without a doubt. I was reading an interesting article about how Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan etc are doing such a good job - they were predominantly involved in SARS and MERS. They've learnt their lesson, they have protocols in place and that has been evident with their infection rates. China, to an extent, are doing a decent job of containing it with their action.Sadly I think you can say this about many countries. In a perverse way, we are "lucky" that this strain isn't as bad as it could have been. One has to hope that we learn from this and be better prepared in the future if and when something similar happens again.
It annoys me that I can find a protocol on how to do any menial thing on the NHS intranet, but there seems to be absolutely no contingency plan within the UK for this kind of thing. Thus, it results in a floundering government giving guidelines at odds with WHO advice and therefore making it difficult for medical staff to actually know what to do. Of course we follow the government guidelines but all the time knowing it likely isn't the right way to go and screaming into a black hole for weeks that there's not enough beds...at all.
The government advice for us in the NHS has changed 3 times in one week. I get that the situation is fluid and everychanging, but the constant changing of advice is resulting in confusion. There's no clear direction.
Just frustrates me. Sorry.