Experts warned that a pandemic was inevitable. Preparing would have cost the US around $1billion. Instead, it will now cost $8 trillion, and over 200,000 deaths.

We explore the greatest existential threats - AI, nuclear and biological - and how coronavirus points to our extinction.

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Sources and resources:

The coronavirus pandemic will cost the US around $8 trillion (Congressional Budget Office):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharzi...

In 2015, Bill Gates called for a $1b budget to prepare for a pandemic:
   • What Bill Gates is afraid of  
(Many experts have issued similar warnings.)

Steven Salzberg, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, warns of dangerous research on potentially pandemic pathogens.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensa...
Cambridge Working Group Consensus Statement on the Creation of Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs):
http://www.cambridgeworkinggroup.org/

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