If you have 9 minutes to spare, listen to the pandemic warning given to the world in 2015 by Bill Gates in his Ted talk. He laid out the problem and the preparedness solutions succinctly.
When asked in a Q&A appearance on CNN the other night about how many of his recommendations from 2015 were adopted, he answered none. He estimated his preparedness steps would've cost in the tens of billions to fully implement. In a vacuum, yes this is a pretty big number, but in the context of the loss of life and economic damage we have and will suffer due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it's trivial.
Fascinating to listen to this from the perspective of where we are today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI
Disclaimer: I'm a massive Bill Gates fan. Sure he's a human being and probably has his flaws. Sure, there are people who are critics of Microsoft for one reason or another.
But it's also a indisputable fact that he is the single most philanthropic human being that has ever walked the planet.
Edwin