This isn’t a black swan event, that gives our elected officials too much credit. This is a black rhino event, an elephant in the room no one wanted to address. epidemiologists have been predicting this for years. Explained on Netflix did an episode over a year ago where they said two major things- the next pandemic would likely be a zoonotic virus that originates in a wet market, and that the economic fallout would be worse than the virus itself. We got extremely lucky with SARS and it was only a matter of time before our luck ran out.