But public attention was focused elsewhere at the time and like everything else response was lagged.
If covid-19 had been as lethal as MERS we would have been in DS. Thank God we dodged that bullet. I can't thank anyone else.
What are we going to learn from this? My guess is nothing at all. That's the most depressing aspect of all this.
Our struggle to handle what in its most benign characterization is an industrial accident suggests our civilization has gotten in over its head. Unless things change our proud tower is living on borrowed time.
