Despite COVID-19 fatigue, I greatly enjoyed Ten Lessons for a Post Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria.
Take home messages: nations are more interconnected than ever, we are social animals, life is increasingly digital, inequality is deepening, globalization is not dead, markets are not enough, the quality of government matters and people should listen to experts (and experts should listen to people).
With that in mind, nothing is written, we still can shape our future so as to more convincingly and humanely respond to the next great catastrophe.