There are 2 major lessons to learn from the Coronavirus pandemic:

1. Stupidity + power is a deadly combination.

2. A highly infectious pathogen can blanket the globe long before effective treatments can be devised and deployed.

Compare the results of Donald Trump's utterly incompetent reckless bungling of the pandemic response -
over 50 million infected, 810,000 dead - to New Zealand Prime Minister Jucinda Ardern's prompt, intelligent,
fact based, competent response - 13,000 infected, 49 dead. (12-19-2021)

Or compare it to Obama's handling of the 2014-16 Ebola pandemic... Hu?

Thats rite! There was no Ebola pandemic!

Primarily due to America's CDC coming down like a ton of disinfectant soaked bricks in Africa and everywhere else in
the world the virus raised its ugly head, it was only a hand full of relatively small outbreaks.

We can thank our lucky stars that we aren't in the alternate reality in which Trump became Prez in 2012!

Now the Omicron variant is surging due to being far more transmissable and no shortage of unvaccinated transeivers
to infect. With the world's population of humans and animals working as a giant R&D lab for the virus, it may only be
a matter of time till a strain emerges that is beyond the capabilities of our immune systems.
In other words, no vaccine can be made to fight it and you become a permanent carrier if it doesn't kill you.

I don't want to be seen as a fear monger, but the situation is even worse than what we are hearing from the health
authorities.

Suppose the next virus is as contagious as Covid but as deadly as Ebola. Or the next thing is a 100% drug proof
bacteria or fungal spore, which both have the potential to be carried by the wind from city to city, continent to continent.

The prudent plan is to have everybody able to defend themselves immediately upon learning
that there's a nasty new pathogen on the prowl in their area.