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Some people diligently try to make sense of what happened but I have the distinct sense the public simply wants to move on and wipe the pandemic from memory as there are more pressing 'fights'.

Except viruses have no brain, no hurt feelings, no divisive politics, just their inexorable multiplication logic. The writing is on the wall.

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Never forget what happened. That's how history repeats.

Well it would be great if people were pushing for reforms that actually would prevent these problems (basically however you’d define them) from happening again.

Namely: TESTING so we have actual data to make decisions with, immediately and continuously.

We were completely flying blind when big, big decisions had to be made.

It’s a stupid argument to ask whether the blind decisions we made were right or wrong when we could focus on not being blind next time.

I think we also need to have a global alert system that somehow works independently on any political or other friction. It should organized to be resilient, tamper proof and transparent. If we are really serious of avoiding major population declines from future (eventually also more virulent) pandemics and consider our selves "civilized" rather than expendable biomass this is a fundamental social organization breakthrough we must achieve.

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