![]() ![]() Looking back, I read those sentences as a veiled confession. to resist that strange fatalism that leads most of us not to cancel our travel plans and not to wear uncomfortable masks, even when a dangerous virus is spreading exponentially.” 2, I wrote, “We are now dealing with an epidemic in the world’s most populous country, which has a significant chance of becoming a global pandemic. ![]() The conventional wisdom at that time, from Fox News to The Washington Post, was that the coronavirus posed a lesser threat to Americans than the usual winter wave of influenza. 26, 2020, I was regarded as eccentric (certainly by the majority of the delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, who seemed oblivious to the danger). When I first spoke and wrote publicly about the rising probability of a global pandemic, in the week ending Jan. Never in our lifetimes, it seems, has there been greater uncertainty about the future - and greater ignorance of the past.Īt the beginning of 2020, very few people grasped the significance of the news coming out of Wuhan about a new coronavirus. ![]()
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