The Cassandra Syndrome

For 20 years we've been hearing from everybody in the field of epidemiology that there was going to be another kind of global breakout of some kind of highly communicable disease. And we've very well developed plans and how to tackle it. So here we had a case where there were excellent forecasts available but the people in charge ignored the forecasts. I think of that as like the Cassandra syndrome you know where you've got somebody outside of the temple telling you exactly what's going to happen, then agamemnon's like nope send the ships off to Troy we're going.