[lofi_lory]

Neither extrem weather events, nor pandemics are expected to be freak events in the coming years. SARS1 was a warning shot.

I don't think pandemic monitoring and response preparation are a that expensive, even if you use them just once a decade or two.

And lots of failings highlighted by the pandemic are of a general nature concerning infrastructure debt. If health care wasn't run at max human capacity for "cost effectiveness" we may not have to talk about triage. If broadband internet access and digital literacy were a thing, WFH would run more smoothly.

[throwawayboise]

Nature has its ways of managing unsustainable population growth. Basically, starvation or disease. Maybe humanity is just at that point, and there's not a lot we can do absent some really breaking changes to how we live, work, and produce what we need.