Others have pointed out that other threats may have seemed just as likely, and that hindsight may be essential to pick out this one. Now that we have hindsight

Others have pointed out that other threats may have seemed just as likely, and that hindsight may be essential to pick out this one. Now that we have hindsight about that, maybe the lesson is that it's worth it to find the money to research the hell out of every top-20 or top-200 pandemic threats. Spray-and-pray. Another pandemic will come. With luck, it will be another century from now. With bad luck, it will be next year. We must be better prepared.