I donât follow the US pandemic policy but wasnât some $bn (albeit much less than $30bn) still approved for pandemic preparedness and isnât more still being discussed (a very quick google points to $0.5b here and $2b here etc and I expect there is more)? If so that seems like a really significant win.
Also your reply was about government, not about EA or adjacent organisations. I am not sure anyone in this post /â thread has given any evidence of any âa valiant effortâ yet, such as listing campaigns run or even policy papers written etc. The only post-COVID policy work I know of (in the UK, see comment below) seemed very successful and I am not sure it makes sense to update against âmaking the government saneâ without understanding what the unsuccessful campaigns have been. (Maybe also Guarding Against Pandemics, are they doing stuff that people feel ought to have had an impact by now, and has it?)
I donât follow the US pandemic policy but wasnât some $bn (albeit much less than $30bn) still approved for pandemic preparedness and isnât more still being discussed (a very quick google points to $0.5b here and $2b here etc and I expect there is more)? If so that seems like a really significant win.
Also your reply was about government, not about EA or adjacent organisations. I am not sure anyone in this post /â thread has given any evidence of any âa valiant effortâ yet, such as listing campaigns run or even policy papers written etc. The only post-COVID policy work I know of (in the UK, see comment below) seemed very successful and I am not sure it makes sense to update against âmaking the government saneâ without understanding what the unsuccessful campaigns have been. (Maybe also Guarding Against Pandemics, are they doing stuff that people feel ought to have had an impact by now, and has it?)