When Boris took office Covid and the devastating expense it brought was unforeseen
nonsense. " 11 pandemic and epidemic preparedness exercises were carried out between 2015 and 2019. They included Exercise Alice, which in 2016 tested the country’s readiness to cope with Middle East respiratory syndrome, caused by a coronavirus."
And quite clearly the government didn't take a blind bit of notice of any of them. No good them whimpering "We could never have expected this." They could have, they should have, and they did. They just chose not to do anything about it.
https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1501