>"The problem is that the west has nobody in power with living memory of a pandemic. An unfortunate failing of human cognition is that most humans discount that

>"The problem is that the west has nobody in power with living memory of a pandemic. An unfortunate failing of human cognition is that most humans discount that which they have no direct experience of." What about the HIV/AIDS pandemic? Lots of folks in the HHS have living memory of that. In fact Dr Debbie Birx the WH Coronavirus response coordinator has spent decades fighting on that front. And the CDC has a presence in 40 different counties through various partnerships and has had first hand experience with SARS, MERS, H1N1 and EBOLA.