The pandemic has subjected Poland to a kind of stress test. The health service was on the verge of collapse before the coronavirus even hit it with full force, politicians are unable to work out any compromise in the face of the threat to the lives of tens of thousands of citizens, state structures prove incapable of managing the crisis situation, there is a lack of equipment, and the state appears to be deprived of technology and production capacity in key areas – writes Witold Jurasz in the analysis What if a pandemic is followed by war?