How to deal with the NEXT pandemic

What actually is the correct approach if a similar disease to covid19 begins spreading again?

As a PhD former pandemic epidemiologist, I propose this PSEUDO-ELIMINATION STRATEGY. It would likely succeed with very low cost to the economy (apart from (2) which is unavoidable because you can’t trust other countries):

1. Do NOT wait for the ‘best science & modelling’ (we already knew everything we needed to know from OTHER countries in . . January 2020 this time around & the US & UK’s delays made it approximately 20x harder to suppress covid19 while ‘waiting for the best science’)
2. National border shut down
3. Rapid use of masks in community
4. Rapid development & dispersal of BOTH an accurate test AND a 5 minute, less accurate, saliva test (much of the world is still wrong about saliva tests now)
5. Rapid development of vaccines. No silly claims they will take 3 years. In a pandemic you can test it 10x faster BECAUSE it’s around!
6. Lockdowns. IF NECESSARY upon > 5 cases, repeated local & (hopefully only 1) national 3 week lockdowns & state border closures (depending on distribution)
7. State-of-the-art rapid contact tracing (over the web within 3 hours. Follow up by visits/calls only if necessary)
8. Secure & humane 2 week quarantining with military oversight

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