The new book “The Big One” describes lessons learned from past pandemics and how they might be applied to mitigate the dangers of future outbreaks.
I have a copy of the book “The Coming Plague” by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Maybe even the book GWB read and asked his advisors if it was a valid concern, then began the development of a task force to counter pandemics (that Trump eventually killed because Obama was part of).
Needless to say, it’s been a well known issue to be ready for, and we’ve had both good and bad results depending on how we prepared and reacted to it. Have we learned enough yet? I’m not so sure.
When covid first spread worldwide, I had hoped that it would ultimately save lives in the long run by teaching us important lessons and forcing us to take actions that would leave us better prepared for a much deadlier pandemic in the future. It never occurred to me that a significant portion of the population would look at humanity and medical science struggling against a disease and choose to side with the disease. But unfortunately, that’s the stupid fucking world we live in.
So instead of coming out of the pandemic in a state of readiness for any future threats, we’ve seen a concerted effort to dismantle our public health systems and eliminate anything that would help us respond to the next threat. And that was before we made wormbrain the secretary of health.
Thanks to the political influence of the Nurgle evangelists, we are absolutely fucked when the next pandemic rolls around.
One thing I’ve learnt is that while most people will do the right thing, there are enough selfish, stupid and lazy cunts who will fuck it all for everyone
It’s great that the overwhelming majority of people are decent and good, but there are just too many arseholes who now feel emboldened and lack any sense of shame about their ignorance
funny after the last one i have way more knowledge about how to get by in another pando
yet if i catch wiff of another one i’m gonna consider checking out early very seriously, because people are horrible during pandos and it wasn’t really worth surviving the last one
Why is everyone acting like the “last pandemic” is over?
It would require them noticing how fucked up it is that they lied about it ever being over.
