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This is narrow-minded thinking influenced by recent events instead of a realistic risk assessment. Imagine you spend trillions on vaccines for possibly deadly diseases, and then the Yellowstone supervolcano breaks out and general disaster control is in a bad shape because you've spent trillions elsewhere.

You can prepare for everything but it needs to be done on the basis of balancing many different concerns.




Why should we imagine highly contrived scenario, most risks are known, we underinvest in prevention and then pay 10x when shit hits the fan




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