It pays to remember that COVID-19 is a global crisis. But before the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy was already in serious difficulty. Slow economic growth and massive accumulation of debt reinforced that fundamental factors behind the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and recession were never resolved; they were just plastered over. The global system had received a massive shock, and the chickens have come over to roost, and some of us have been saying it for a long, long time. We are the ones who are going to learn from the COVID-19 experience. Clearly some in this Parliament have no capacity to learn.