New: Footage of Sally Davies, then Chief Medical Officer, reporting on Exercise Cygnus in Nov 2016.

"We've just had in the UK a three-day exercise on a pandemic that killed a lot of people… and it became absolutely clear that… we could not cope with the excess bodies." 1/3

…as we reported on Mar 16. But note that Davies then says:

A severe pandemic "will stretch everyone, it becomes very worrying about the deaths… and then what that will do to society, as you start to get all of those deaths… and then the economic impact." 2/3

…"as you start to get all those deaths."

This is not the language of suppression. This is mitigation.

Cygnus tested for 200-400K deaths. That was thought plausible.

The UK overturned years of Whitehall planning when it locked down on 23 Mar. (See: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/03/why-weren-t-we-ready) 3/3