> it had the potential to be a good test run to see how we deal with a more fatal pandemic. Wasn't the AIDS pandemic already a good test run? It appears AIDS k

> it had the potential to be a good test run to see how we deal with a more fatal pandemic. Wasn't the AIDS pandemic already a good test run? It appears AIDS killed twice as many people in the African region in the year 2021 alone than COVID-19 has all told. Particularly with respect to the Americas, I expect AIDS would have proven to be far more deadly if it weren't for our effective proactive measures. That we seemed to be running around like chickens with our heads cut off when COVID-19 came around, even after the lessons learned from the previous major pandemic not that many years earlier, suggests that we simply don't learn (or tells that pandemics can be different enough that the lessons aren't transferrable).