I completely agree. One things for certain, if there's another COVID, the US will not shut down and send everyone to work from home. They are still dealing with the repercussions of the first time. Never again. They'll let us all die first.

They didn't even take the last global pandemic seriously until it was way too late.

Unfortunately, rich people got even richer as a result of the massive government spending trying to keep the lid on the pot that had already boiled over, so they'll never have an incentive to actually take it seriously when they know they won't be negatively affected by it.

Ebola isn’t airborne either but that doesn’t seem to stop people from doing the best they can to spread it.

The proximate cause of Ebola spread is driven by unhygienic burial practices specific to rural impoverished communities in West Africa.

Hantavirus spread is, similarly, confined to immediate family of the infected who are often the only available caretakers.

Quarantine and sanitation are highly effective at mitigating the spread of both illnesses.

It’s not that the virus sucked, we just handled it correctly.

A virus that wasn't so fast acting and lethal would have had more time to spread undetected.

Had this been HIV on a swingers cruise, the outcome would be very different