Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Florida had 8% of the new Coronavirus cases IN THE WORLD yesterday. And there's still people going to Didny Worl.

You mean Disney World?

[clearspira]

Isn't it incredible though just how poorly prepared the human race was for a plague at the start of 2020? The rule of averages guaranteed that one would hit us eventually and yet it has blindsided us completely. I wonder if modern cleanliness is to blame, in that many thought of such pandemics as things of the past or of third world countries. Lets hope the next one is better defended against.

How can you defend against it? The sort of precautions and readiness that would be far in excessive of justified under normal circumstances, for decades? The real problem is that we're less able to accept that **** happens. It's good that it happens less but it's still part of reality.

Even accounting for that, it is clear from just how tardy world leaders in general were in reacting to Covid-19 as well as our initial PPE and testing shortages that much more could have been realistically done. Its like GreyICE said, it is clear that there was both an underfunding and a Cry Wolf effect in place here.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I took what GreyICE to say as the CDC wasn't crying wolf, just that people never listen to them about the risk or uncertainty involved in leaving our infrastructure lame in the recurring events.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

The big problem with disaster preparedness is that, if you do your job well, everyone will think it was no big deal. Just look up the Y2K bug.

[Darth Wedgius]

The big problem with disaster preparedness is that, if you do your job well, everyone will think it was no big deal. Just look up the Y2K bug.

I really hate it when I have to agree with you.

[Madner Kami]

Then don't, because the Y2K-bug was vastely blown out of proportion.

[GreyICE]

Then don't, because the Y2K-bug was vastely blown out of proportion.

Yes, businesses and the government spent $100 billion fixing it because there wasn't any actual issue. Also the ozone hole wasn't a big deal and we didn't need to ban CFCs and HCFCs because 30 years after the Montreal Protocol it's actually starting to shrink slightly instead of growing. And if we'd caught and contained COVID-19, there'd be people saying we didn't need to spend $30 billion a year on pandemic prevention, and that it was a waste of money.

Fortunately there's no chance that will happen with Global Warming. We're way too late and moving way too slowly to prevent the damages. We're going to run into it face first.

[Madner Kami]

You are an absolute spanner, but then again, I did not expect more of you.

[GreyICE]

You are an absolute spanner, but then again, I did not expect more of you.

I wish to assure you that with this post, you also met expectations.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Then don't, because the Y2K-bug was vastely blown out of proportion.

But it was a real issue, and there were lots of serious potential problems that were averted by the hard work of programmers who are now just written off. For one thing, it would have had a disastrous affect on immunization records.

People only notice disaster preparations when they go horribly wrong.