Just so far as the pandemic does go, with the stories about it arising from chemical labs and/or wet markets, surely this whole thing has had the upshot of indicating that the same sort of thing could very easily happen again. In fact that its positively likely that it will. It could/will be even more lethal "next time" I'm predicting as for a lot of people the last year has been such a mental crisis inducing mess.
Objectively none of the governments globally, with possible exceptions of NZ and Canada, have been that great at prevailing upon their populations to rediscover some sort of concern about their self-preservation.
This matters because its the same reason that American isnt going to be "great" again and that neither capitalism or socialism is likely to work.
I think there's been a crisis in social responsibility for a while, reflected in water and utilities monopoly privatization, drugs epidemics, there's a crisis in personal responsibility too. Striking some sort of a balance between those two, or, hell, even realizing they are not mutually exclusive, is exactly what pandemic disease should be a lesson in. Its not been. Instead its just been a matter of counting the cost of the population at large getting increasingly stupid and believing rubbish.
