No budget cuts
Seeing what the forces have been used for during the Pandemic, I
think they should be formally re-purposed to have a "Civil protection"
role, and then receive budget allocations for that. I gather that after
swine-flu and SARS epidemics meetings and "thought experiments" took place,
but no actual preparations, nor equipment stockpiled. My neighbours company
was actually able to supply 4000 hospital beds for; guess where ? Which they
had previously procured from the Health service and kept in stock.