Originally Posted by
Visconti
Consider the following:
2004 - SARS
2008 - Avian
2010 - Swine
2012 - Mers
2014 - Ebola
2016 - Zika
2018 - Ebola
2020 - Now, Corona
In addition to all of the above, I can't even recount all the other "dire" needs we were briefed on. Perhaps, the Coronavirus is different? Even then, I just don't feel the sense of fear and urgency, because, as they say, I've been around the block so many times. While anything is possible and this "may" prove as or more catastrophic than the Experts are predicting, my experience has been that "this time it's different" are the four most expensive words in history.
The only one of these that I should have worried about (though didn't) was H1N1 swine flu, which spread like wildfire. The others were containable and were contained. It's been very clear since the early days of this that this is different, uncontainable.