TONY FAUCI in January 2017, at a @georgetown_ghssโ@HarvardGH summit on pandemics, said the new Trump team should expect a surprise crisis no matter what.
โThe thing weโre extraordinarily confident about is that weโre going to see this in the next few years.โ pic.twitter.com/bpZD9qykay
โ Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 13, 2020
This was predictable because zoonotic infections tend to emerge from the interface of humankind and nature, and weโve been doing a lot more of that recently and in a very destructive manner. So when people are like, โHAR HAR, hippies are just using this to protect NATUREโ (like thatโs a bad thing), understand that yet again they are poor thinkers who utterly fail to begin to comprehend how ecosystems and other complexities function in the real world.
As Iโve said before, not a Black Swan event. Utterly predictable โ just not the exact time.