So what do you think "staying ready" means?

Work has to continue on the next generation of vaccines...

We can spend the rest of lives forever wondering whether there's an apocalypse round the corner. Or should we try to get back to something resembling normal? Just remember what damage all the lockdowns and restrictions are doing to people's physical and mental health and to the economy - jobs, cost of living, etc., and to children's schooling. The vaccines should be restoring our sense of balance. Staying ready, to me, is overwhelmingly a matter of having up-to-date vaccines and rolling them out. And by public health messages telling us how to help to stop the virus and how to be kind to each other.