That’s a very good analogy. It certainly wouldn’t be constructive at the time to scream at your wife that if she’d changed the smoke detector batteries last fall during time change like the fire department recommends, maybe we would have caught the fire early enough to put out! Although a pandemic isn’t something that was never considered before with no planning done, it hasn’t been something at the top of anyone’s triage list for awhile, and therefore we are dealing with it on the fly and the response is far from perfect. It appears that the last time it was a big focus was 15 years ago. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283304/ I wish people would panic less however and maybe step away from the news a little. Bottom line is that there is over a 99% chance you won’t die of this. I get the impression many think there is a 99% chance of dying of it. I’d rather have a 100% chance of not dying to be sure, but I’m not willing to cower in my basement for the next year hiding from the world to achieve that 100% metric either.
