Public health experts all over the world have predicted the magnitude of this sort of thing for decades, and this particular virus for months.
We have plenty of historical examples of pandemics to reference.
Hell, Bill Gates himself gave a TED talk in 2015 about exactly this: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gates-warned-us-covid-19-...
> “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,” Gates said during the Ted Talk. “Not missiles, but microbes.”
That reminds me of all of the finance experts that have been predicting a major asset bubble pop for the last 7 years.
Public health experts all over the world have predicted the magnitude of this sort of thing for decades, and this particular virus for months.
We have plenty of historical examples of pandemics to reference.
Hell, Bill Gates himself gave a TED talk in 2015 about exactly this: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gates-warned-us-covid-19-...
> “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,” Gates said during the Ted Talk. “Not missiles, but microbes.”