In 2011, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization had a publication titled Health is more than influenza. Before I get into what it said, something odd happened in the past month. The article is no longer available on the original link.
You can see on archive what it looked like before: https://archive.is/https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/7/11-089086/en/
but when you try the previous link, it takes you to https://www.who.int/home/cms-decommissioning which says:
We have revamped our website.
In 2020, our web migration project tackled over 180,000 pages of content and over 200,000 publications. Much of our content has been updated, made more dynamic and may no longer be found in the same place.
Please do a search for "Health is more than influenza". Did you find it? Nope, not there. They suggest to go try other areas of their site. Find it there? Not me.
I did a google search for the title, and found it still on the NIH site as a publication from the BUlletin in 2011. Then I did a search for the WHO site "site:who.int Health is more than influenza" and found it here
It is now 1 of 3 articles in a 2 page PDF. Well that took some work, but it's still on their site in a new "app" subdomain. But what's it's importance?
This explains how there are alleged pandemic health scares which are created by a culture of fear. Worst-case thinking is promoted well over evidence or a balanced assessment of the actual risk a virus poses. This was done in 2010. It was done in the 1960s. It's been done over and over in between and before. Policy becomes determined by the fear of worst-case scenarios and not by informed evidence.
As the authors describe, advocacy of the severity of the threat to public health comes from so-called influenza experts. They promote fear in order to get attention. They state that there is a "highly competitive market of health governance" which creates a fierce "struggle for attention, budgets, and grants".
This is what has happened in 2020. Welcome to the Imperial College and their "expert" advocacy of the doomsday covid virus. These experts, time and time again, have a vested interest in exaggerating the threat in order to propagate and promote themselves and their careers. They want money to be thrown in their direction which favors the disease of their interest.
You can't define what will happen for something new that emerges, nor for something that you expect to be the same. Adaptive responses to the emergence of a problem as it emerges is required. Otherwise, you get these pandemics of fear, wasting of resources, money and enriching people in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry.
This is what has happened in 2020, 2021 and for the foreseeable future as the bio security state grows and expands to control more of our lives.