There's an interesting story about h1n1 in France. At the time it appeared, the French government took it really seriously and spent 2 billions to buy masks and

There's an interesting story about h1n1 in France. At the time it appeared, the French government took it really seriously and spent 2 billions to buy masks and vaccines. Fortunately the virus didn't spread, but the government's reaction was highly criticized. For the covid19, the reaction was too slow, hospitals now struggle to get masks and I'm convinced that's because they didn't want to reproduce the h1n1 over reaction... On the opposite, you have the South Korea who was highly prepared with masks and protocols, apparently thanks to their experience with Mers virus. Let's hope that, thanks to covid19, a lot of countries will take strict measures, like South Korea before and that a virus like h5n1 won't wipe half of the world.