There is a reason,
I suspect,
that media and leaders
are talking about Bird Flu now,
before it shifts
to human to human transmission.
And I don’t think
that reason is preparedness.
I believe leaders
are leveraging the tendency
for people to become bored,
to no longer worry
about threats
after a passage of time.
In a month or two,
bird flu will become old news.
It won’t interest people
because we will have talked about it
for a while.
When human to human transmission happens
and the sickness and dying occurs
in larger numbers,
there won’t be a push
to put protections in place
that might disrupt business.
Business builders
in the publishing industry
used this same tactic
to employ AI
for cover art, editing, writing.
There was big outrage
at first.
Readers then got bored
and moved on.
The publishing industry
is now rolling out
AI everything
and there is no pushback.
Realize that people
bore easily.
Use that
to your advantage.