> or simply a NEW virus becomes pandemic and rinse/repeat all over again Of course, but that is in the points above: Lessons are being learned (e.g. the impor

> or simply a NEW virus becomes pandemic and rinse/repeat all over again Of course, but that is in the points above: Lessons are being learned (e.g. the importance of air quality), new tech is being developed (e.g. mRNA), and it is hoped that global planning will be better next time; there is obviously work to do there; but no guarantee yet that it will actually happen. The human race did have some luck with COVID-19: it could have been more deadly, and it responded well to rapidly-developed vaccines (at least at first). So it serves as good training. There is no reason to believe that these lessons definitely won't apply to the next virus, so "planning to fight the last war again" is actually a good idea when it comes to this kind of war. e.g. this looks like terrible timing for "governance" and would be unthinkable now: https://www.thenational.scot/news/18515726.covid-19-boris-johnson-binned-pandemic-team-months-crisis/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/18515726.covid-19-boris-jo... e.g. 2, Have a look at this 2019 assessment of pandemic preparedness: UK and USA are top https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparedness-pandemics https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparednes... Clearly it didn't work out that way in 2020-2021, both of those countries did very badly indeed. lessons can be learned from this as to what is _really_ needed to be prepared.