Depressing Headline of the Day

To Respond to the Threat of Avian Influenza, Look back at Lessons Learned from COVID-19

—Headline of an editorial in Nature Medicine

I beg to differ.  To quote Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, "They have forgotten nothing, and they have learned nothing."

There are lessons to be learned from the pandemic, lessons that the editorial lists as, aggressive surveillance, protecting agricultureal and food workers, widespread availability of tests, masking, and open communications, would no longer be a part of the public health establishment.

There have been no lessons learned from COVID-19, because anyone in the public health establishment who attempts to learn lessons and develop strategies from these lessons will find themselves without a job, because, because of the aggressive push by various power centers in society to return to normalcy, regardless of the reality of the biology.

To quote Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."