We can do better. 
I am an optimistic realist. I believe in our capacity to harness technology to improve the world and offset almost any kind of problem. The progress of scientific innovation is stunning and there is much to be grateful for. However, it is not a time to pat ourselves on the back.
Two years in, and messages like this were swiftly ignored and continue to be downplayed. We are not through the woods yet.
https://twitter.com/nanogenomic/status/1241279857306128386?s=20
Reminder: in January 2020, people thought we “don’t have enough data” to extrapolate infectivity. Aerosol transmission was denied as a route of infection. We didn’t close our borders. The public was discouraged from wearing masks. Each wave, we were told we’d flatten the curve.
Let’s learn from the past and be a bit more proactive the fourth time around. If we can’t learn to be, we are screwed if something even scarier than COVID comes around.
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