If an outbreak did occur. If. I believe the word ‘if’ is a conditional as in “If it does” or “If it does not”. It implies that a circumstances can be one or the other. While that is indeed true when one is in control of a situation, it’s a fairly daft stance to take when one is in no control whatsoever and the consequences will be fatal to thousands. To paraphrase: In years to come people will gather and say “Now what did Tony Blair ever do for us ?

Ahhh. Another disaster we can attribute to ‘nature’, the most villified of entities of our times. Most convenient of scapegoats that exonerate the guilty, be it in ‘human’ or systemic form.