I agree with most everything, except I'm not quite sold on vaccines as the a silver bullet: 1) We don't quite understand the impact of a new disease on the vac

I agree with most everything, except I'm not quite sold on vaccines as the a silver bullet: 1) We don't quite understand the impact of a new disease on the vaccinated. /Many/ diseases have debilitating long-term effects. Some vaccines -- for example rabies -- prevent that. Others don't. 2) We don't know how well vaccines will work for future disease. I view them more as part of a comprehensive solution. What I would have liked to see with COVID, and with future diseases, is a sufficient zero-COVID policy everywhere to stop the disease, as happened with smaller outbreaks in recent years. My general conclusion is that we ought to have: - Enough manufacturing capacity to provide everyone in the world with high-filtration masks, disinfecting wipes, plastic gloves, and similar basic supplies - Enough vaccine manufacturing capacity to be able to roll out an mRNA vaccine to 7 billion people in a few months at most - Enough manufacturing capacity to be able to spin out things like antigen and PCR tests quickly - Some plan for supply chains to get everyone food if we need another lockdown - Plans for contact tracing, ideally with practice drills. - Perhaps, some plan for how our economy doesn't implode on a lockdown. This went surprisingly well with covid19, but I feel a little bit by fluke. ... and similar types of emergency precautions.