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We learned that pretty loud and clear during covid. If the next ones any more serious than the flu then we all f'd.
Not "unprepared"... negatively prepared. As in, it seems most people are prepared to actively reject any kind of measures meant to alleviate the spread of whatever the next pandemic is >

I liked to the of COVID as a test run for the real pandemic which will really threaten humanity. We failed miserably. >

I knew we were done when no one wanted to wear a mask. I kept telling people, if I’m wrong about the mask you just have to wear a thin piece of cloth over your mouths. If you’re wrong about the mask, people will die… and people were just okay with the possibility of people dying. We are too selfish as a species. That’s not changing. >

I remember reading someone say "the biggest mistake we made during the pandemic was telling people the masks were not to protect ourselves, but to protect others" >

Unprepared? If anything we are counterprepared, next pandemic you are going to have huge numbers of people deliberately going against sound medical advice. >

Well, perhaps it's just our time. I hope the insects fare far better than we did. >

The REIGN OF THE DOLPHINS shall commence shortly!!!!! >

And the Mantis shall lord over the lands forthwith! All hail, the reign of the Chitin Empire, for it is nigh! >

I was hoping for isopods :3 >

Ah, fear not! The Isopods hold great sway of the seas in their own right; symbiotically - as co-councils to the aforementioned Dolphin Lords – you see. >

Scientists were saying for decades how unprepared we were for a pandemic. Sure enough COVID comes along, continues to fuck things up, and exposes just how fragile everything was: supply chains, geopolitics, economy, trust in science, civility. 
Think it’s safe to say that many of those who make the big decisions saw the last few years only as a big cash and power grab, and have done little to nothing to build up resiliency and redundancy in any of these areas of civilization. So yeah, we are even less prepared for the next pandemic than we were for this one.