It’s not a particularly satisfying answer, but contagious diseases jumping to humans and causing small outbreaks is not a particularly uncommon event. Most of the time, those outbreaks die out without becoming a large scale pandemic. This is due to both nature, and significant investments in global contagious disease response infrastructure.
Saying a given outbreak is probably not going to be as bad as covid is probably correct, because most aren’t.
I should also mention that the public health infrastructure that normally prevents epidemics has been significantly weakened over the past few years. This does tilt the table towards pandemic.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
See, last time trump wanted to get his hands in it and didn’t let Anthony Fauci take common sense steps…
This time trump has so much shit going on he likely doesn’t even know this is a thing.
So he’s going to let the people with decades of experience follow established procedure and take logical steps to minimize infection.
Yep, everything will be fine because the director of HHS will be able to handle this with essentially zero oversight…
/S
This is the director of HHS btw:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cybrauiga0w