This quote alone shows how myopic conservationists are about "pandemic preparedness", a decades-old field about so much more than respirators and tests.

We've moved from asking for a seat at the table in global health to claiming we invented the table

https://time.com/5817363/wildlife-habitats-disease-pandemics/?fbclid=IwAR0rgdhhL5iLP6GvadIaN_LJSoLf7K8xUxY7HtHJycMQLH3ndgcd4q31N7U

It's more than "grandiose" - it's wrong, incomplete, uninformed, myopic, pretentious, and shows a deep unwillingness to actually engage in any substantive conversations about why pandemics actually happen - or what can be done to even course-correct the current crisis.

It's beyond audacious to wander into the crisis, claim it's as simple as respirators and testing, and then pivot to nature. No insights into health governance, into how laws matter, what hospitals need, where policy challenges are, ANYTHING about the biotech sphere (vaccines)

I say that as a conservation biologist. I feel personally disappointed by the behavior of the senior leadership of the field right now. It's exploitative of a crisis, deliberately and without regard for scientific merit.

When are the #scicomm conservation folks gonna speak up about this? When are we going to actually address this kind of malfeasance? (Are we just not saying anything because it serves the conservation goals we've already had from the start?)