Damnit. Just drop a few H-Bombs on China and the virus will stop in next to no time.

everybody likes to do an end-around on the complicated or sophisticated stuff. we like to believe it's more important to sound smart than to be smart.

"Historically, people return to valuing expert views in times of trouble or distress."
The interview was done 3 yrs ago. I'm afraid no one listened, as we don't seem to be any more inclined to listen to the experts during a global pandemic of a newly emerged infectious disease than we were then. Maybe even less so. Sad, slippery slope we're on.