56. The end of epidemics. How to stop viruses and save humanity now
This
post will be no surprise to many, but it does speak of our collective
mentality. Whilst making a book purchase on Amazon a few days ago, I came
across a book titled ‘The end of epidemics. How to stop viruses and save
humanity now’, by Jonathan D Quick. The book is temporarily out of stock. You
can just imagine it, languishing on shop shelves and Amazon warehouses, most of
the public oblivious or uncaring to the threat of an epidemic, last February.
And suddenly, in a clear case of serendipity, a global pandemic explodes and
this book, which has the perfect title for it, is thrown straight into the
toilet paper and flour category of things you cannot be without.
Disappointingly to many buyers, it probably will offer no quick (pardon the
pan) fix to our current or future problems, but rather a whole range of well
planned measures requiring investments and concerted global policy changes
which will have little chance of being implemented once the next precarious
recovery ensues
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