[NoOneNew]

When was the last pandemic? Seems like the Spanish Flu back from 1918-1920 is the only thing "recently" that was at this scale. Then take the miracle of modern science eradicating heinous disease. Like smallpox... only for anti-vaxxers to bring it back...

Pandemics haven't really been a real threat for people to take seriously, and for good reason. Society and infrastructure is unrecognizable since Spanish Flu. Laws and procedures... well, no one really has real experience for this kind of problem. It's just a back of the mind kind of what if. More spy-novel fantasy than potential reality.

I relate this to 9/11. It's a massive wake-up call and learning experience. If you're old enough to know of a pre-9/11 world, at least in America, it was totally different. I had to explain to my niece that before 9/11, no one thought twice of an unattended backpack. You leave your backpack somewhere for a few hours in a cafe, park or wherever, either it was stolen or it was still there. Post-9/11, bomb squad is called out to investigate. Hell, Crocodile Dundee 2, lighting dynamite to "fish" in the waters with NYC in the background. Then a NYD coasty rolling up on him having a laugh. Dude, you can't make that joke anymore! Straight up, it's not funny or practical. Dundee would have been lit up post 9/11.

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure, the world won't be the same after this. Maybe not as extreme as 9/11, but we will know of a pre-covid world and a post-covid world.