Current pandemic is also a test run of a global catastrophe which demonstrates how humanity is ineffective in preparedness and responding, how it was deaf to warnings and how greed, ignorance and overconfidence prevented us to act effectively. If it were more dangerous pandemic, say, bird flu with 60 per cent mortality but transmitted by birds, we may be already devastated.
In some sense, it demonstrates a failure of all previous pandemic prevention and even x-risks prevention efforts. We didn’t create anything tangible which we could use now, not even an adequate stockpile of masks or consensus about their efficiency.
Current pandemic is also a test run of a global catastrophe which demonstrates how humanity is ineffective in preparedness and responding, how it was deaf to warnings and how greed, ignorance and overconfidence prevented us to act effectively. If it were more dangerous pandemic, say, bird flu with 60 per cent mortality but transmitted by birds, we may be already devastated.
In some sense, it demonstrates a failure of all previous pandemic prevention and even x-risks prevention efforts. We didn’t create anything tangible which we could use now, not even an adequate stockpile of masks or consensus about their efficiency.