Some good points, but on the contrary: a slow take-off is considered safer because we have more lead time and warning shots, but the world has seen many similar events and warning shots for covid. Ones that come to mind in the last two decades are swine flu, bird flu, and Ebola, and of course there have been many more over history.
This just isn’t that novel or surprising, billionaires like Bill Gates have been sounding the alarm, and still the supermajority of Western countries failed to take basic preventative measures. Those properties seem similar to even the slow take-off scenario. I feel like the fast-takeoff analogy would go through most strongly in a world where we’d just never seen this sort of pandemic before, but in reality we’ve seen many of them.
Some good points, but on the contrary: a slow take-off is considered safer because we have more lead time and warning shots, but the world has seen many similar events and warning shots for covid. Ones that come to mind in the last two decades are swine flu, bird flu, and Ebola, and of course there have been many more over history.
This just isn’t that novel or surprising, billionaires like Bill Gates have been sounding the alarm, and still the supermajority of Western countries failed to take basic preventative measures. Those properties seem similar to even the slow take-off scenario. I feel like the fast-takeoff analogy would go through most strongly in a world where we’d just never seen this sort of pandemic before, but in reality we’ve seen many of them.