[thaumasiotes]

Frankly, I think it's a good thing if an article saying "X is doomed within ten years" keeps resurfacing year after year, long after its own deadline has passed. Maybe people will notice that that sort of reporting tends to be nonsense.

[angry_octet]

It is weak thinking to state that rare high risk events that haven't occurred no longer require risk mitigation.

[thaumasiotes]

You may have drawn a different lesson from "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" than everybody else.

[angry_octet]

It is quite strange that you are comparing a biosecurity threat to a fairy tale. There is actual scientific evidence of a pathogen that eliminated a banana type and caused massive economic loss, and you pretend that there isn't. We have biosecurity alerts regularly and some times quarantine procedures fail, e.g. http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/wh....

It is the same sort of self serving delusion that leads to climate change denialism.