How to Build a Culture of Safety and Defence in a Pandemic

We need to build trusts, and we can't do that if we wait until the next crisis to talk to each other. The third area where we take action is to build our defences against infectious diseases. Instead of a skeletal public health imperstructure that waxes and wanes with every crisis, we would maintain for good a large cadr of highly skilled public health professionals who work day in and day out. We'd reduce our structural punerabilities to infectious diseases by up dating our building codes and ventilation systems so that we could be assured that these spaces will not result in superspreading. And we would implement economic defenses, policies that provide financial and social support to people who need to