I think it terms of response if there is say a 5% chance of a global pandemic happening in any one year the world won't act all that much differently than if th

I think it terms of response if there is say a 5% chance of a global pandemic happening in any one year the world won't act all that much differently than if there was a 0.1% chance. The board political and societal will to do something can only really be directed at things right in front of us. I saw a quote recently along the lines of as much as spent on a single soccer team as the worlds budget for detecting near earth asteroids.