TONY FAUCI in January 2017, at a @georgetown_ghss–@HarvardGH summit on pandemics, said the new Trump team should expect a surprise crisis no matter what.

“The thing we’re extraordinarily confident about is that we’re going to see this in the next few years.” pic.twitter.com/bpZD9qykay

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 13, 2020

This was predictable because zoonotic infections tend to emerge from the interface of humankind and nature, and we’ve been doing a lot more of that recently and in a very destructive manner. So when people are like, “HAR HAR, hippies are just using this to protect NATURE” (like that’s 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 I’ve said before, not a Black Swan event. Utterly predictable — just not the exact time.