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Surely lessons were learned, though?
how many people do you know that are still masking to avoid covid which never went away? in the US at least we have learned negative lessons and societally are worse prepared for another round of pandemic
That's the really scary thing: we will undoubtedly handle any future pandemic far worse than covid, unless it's far more lethal than covid (which itself killed over a million Americans and harmed exponentially more). And the bullshit negative lessons we took from covid make it more likely that a deadlier viral outbreak will grow into a pandemic in the first place.
Not a "learned lesson" but since H5N1 has been circulating for decades, there are already candidate vaccines being stockpiled compared to COVID where it took a year for vaccination programs to begin. Downside is that we've successfully countered that via a global anti vaccination campaign to fuck up all vaccine programs forever.
"You can commit crimes and be rewarded with huge political and financial windfalls by actively encouraging disinformation that literally kills the people whose survivors will immediately turn around and vote for you to pick their pockets again" seems to be the lesson learned.
Most unrealistic part of Contagion (2011) was Jude Law getting arrested
There is some truth to that.