From this chaos can come good if we take the opportunity to exact overdue reform

With our public sector standing still in a rapidly changing world and wealthy business owners having their cake and eating it, the coronavirus crisis should give ministers the spur they’ve been seeking to change things, writes Chris Blackhurst

Our news bulletins are filled with complaints about a lack of PPE (AFP via Getty Images)

Once this crisis is deemed to be over, we can expect inquiries galore.

There will be reviews into what the government knew or didn’t know, how quickly it reacted, what mistakes were made, the preparedness of hospitals regionally and nationally, care homes and how they fared, the measures that worked and those that didn’t work, and so on. There will even be a study into why the Cheltenham Festival went ahead.

We’re going to get years of this. A whole coronavirus fallout industry will grow up. Lawyers and public relations advisors will be able to replace the fees they’ve missed because of the collapse in normal business by advising clients on how best to position themselves in the giant postmortem.