What does the world do the moment a new pandemic/health emergency starts?

[bramling]

Imagine how weird it would be if we did this for deaths & hospitalisations caused by smoking / lung cancer or car crashes. People would be advocating for tobacco sales to be completely banned! It's a matter of pytschology as to how you normalise something that will be here for a long time to come.

This is where we needed a strong government and HM's opposition, neither of which we have had. This political lot have quite simply been totally and utterly useless. One can forgive the policy errors dealing with a novel situation, however the communications and handling have been utterly dire.