The world economic forum in 2019 did an analysis of global preparedness to deal with a pandemic.
"The index analyzes those preparation levels by focusing on whether countries have the proper tools in place to deal with large scale outbreaks of disease. Measured on a scale of 0 to 100 where 100 is the highest level of preparedness, the United States came first, followed by the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Unsurprisingly, higher income countries tended to record better scores in the index."
They were a little less than right - in fact completely wrong. Moral of the story - don't trust experts.
Whether the pundits on Car4play are any better is open to debate - but they would find it difficult to be more wrong!
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