> .. what were you doing in 2020?
Waiting several years for widespread vaccine availability, and practicing good hygiene and social distancing.
Viruses aren't so good at seizing and holding territory.
As I recall, the economic damage of the pandemic was ~ "it's worth spending ten billion dollars to make the vaccinations arrive one day sooner": https://www.newsweek.com/operation-warp-speed-what-deal-opin...
(And that was just the cost to the USA, not the world as a whole).
As I recall, the economic damage of the pandemic was ~ "it's worth spending ten billion dollars to make the vaccinations arrive one day sooner": https://www.newsweek.com/operation-warp-speed-what-deal-opin...
(And that was just the cost to the USA, not the world as a whole).