It’s interesting how both computer malware and human viruses foster omnipotent abilities in minds of people trying to do the right thing, making legend of an unbeatable vex.
That disrupting the status-quo means an enemy uses exceptional methods, when it’s only a remix of vectors.

See the absolutist treatment by some of all outside air as now infected with particles. In their exhausting vigilance, they are not seeing the threat.

At the same time, the denigration of masks as protection. They see 500,000 dead but the solution is just paper masks and ritual?

I would circle this back to computer networks and their defense by well-understood and relatively simple to implement technologies, however it’s probably in poor taste compared to the magnitude of human impact.
But god damn does it rhyme with the news about COVID19 response.

The key behaviors for protection of any well-understood system are consistently unremarkable, in comparison to the novelty of threats they can effectively address without specific knowledge of them.

It is precisely that these protections are unremarkable that makes them powerful, and vice-versa.
Because they are reproducible and generic they do not appear as a targeted solution, and because they do not have a specific target they are not laudable as components of winning.

Routine and generic behaviors in defense by definition do not have a measurable win condition, except the status-quo which is already assumed.
A storm drain that does not clog is not a success, it’s just infrastructure that didn’t fail. There’s no “it would have clogged” counter.

Now, just because you don’t have measurable protection-specific counters, doesn’t mean you cannot demonstrate great value especially in comparison to the past or others.
But many people who just want to protect things aren’t good at aggregating the meta-results or arguing them.