#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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Pandemic Preparedness
The preparedness paradox where if you do enough to prepare for major crises one of two things will happen. If we can't use anything to influence a small crisis like Covid what exactly do we think we're gonna do for a pandemic that's like 10 times as bad? The answer should not be that we should wait for big crises because we don't know exactly when they're gonna happen and if we wait for them it might be too late. We should definitely be looking at smaller crises to look at possible experimental long-termist topics.
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