.......still comes down to survival of the strongest, I say.Here is an idea.
In a smart world, to prevent the spread of an infectious disease, you would shut the world down, stop the airports, lock countries down, it would have caused chaos, but nothing like what is going down now. But we didn't, becasue we aren't in a smart world. And why did we not do this?
Simple. Money.
It would have lost too much money to shut the world down.
Well, we can't blame anyone but ourselves.
It is inefficient and self defeating to shut down the world that way.
AND Monetary losses would take a toll on research and prevention as well as tending to the afflicted. IMO.