Dirt,Ultra and others make many points that have established math available. Dirt revisiting some early Covid comparisons..when there were frequent influenza characteristics and infection and death numbers..Covid has a 2+ year track record in the US and the world that commands a different level of respect,response and concern that flu doesn't..the @30,000 a year dead from influenza in the states was surpassed by Covid in weeks.
variants are concerning to anyone paying attention.
but as a rule Ultra comes to post something profound and revealing, of the up most importance, rejecting aid,advice and established science,not based on the message,but instead summarily rejecting the messenger. The idea that another pandemic is going to occur is accepted by rational thinkers, needed infrastructure and strategies for current and future pandemic particular issues,again almost universal agreement by anyone not asleep.
US specific, the facilities failures are everywhere you look, not enough doctors,hospitals,bed capacity,care givers for average health crisis conditions, rampant obesity,hypertension,heart disease were at emergency levels before pandemic..and nothing drastic,dramatic has been done to combat those issues that were daily deadly contributions to death,destruction and long Covid complications..
if anyone has 100's of millions of dollars to help with one or more of these critical life issues we should welcome their help in time of national security emergency..or as correctly described a couple of years ago..a war. During wartime drastic measures are needed