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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Whereas it is not possible to stop earthquakes, it is possible to construct anti-seismic buildings and to organize human activities in such a way as to minimize the risk of death. Activism is much more common than fatalism (this is the so-called "therapeutic community"). Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

With the stated goal of improving India’s “cybersecurity resilience and foreign relations,” the directive calls for all corporate and government organizations, service providers, intermediaries, and data centers operating in India to report incidents from major cyberattacks to identity theft, phishing, bots, and fake mobile apps.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. Register 2007. However, two analyses (Escaleras et al.