While the actions of authorities may have saved lives, the name of Amoy Gardens is now synonymous with one of the worst viral outbreaks of recent times – and proof, if we needed it, that excellent healthcare and proper surveillance are vital in protecting cities even as they become more interconnected and vulnerable than ever before.
So we end up as a country of separate religious schools (what did our children do to deserve that in an interconnected world?), exceptionalism in law and even human rights.
But the reality is, in our interconnected world, wider problems in the global economy pose a real risk to our recovery at home.
The fundamental problem is that Isis is waging war across two countries in a single interconnected crisis that is sustained by Sunni anger and the perception that the US and the west are content to look on as a confident Iran backs Shia groups in Iraq and beyond for its own strategic and sectarian reasons.
The tangled web: as we become creatures of the smartphone, the tablet and the app, and as services, sites and accounts become ever more interconnected, remember that if one is breached others become unsafe.
The movie is the latest in Marvel's "Phase Two", which refers to the second round of interconnected superhero films that also included last year's hit Guardians of the Galaxy, which made more than $770m worldwide.
In the US, the two most watched new shows of the last season were hip hop drama Empire and legal thriller How To Get Away With Murder, both of which featured key gay characters, while in Britain, Russell T Davies, who created Queer as Folk, was back on screen with the interconnected series Cucumber, Banana and Tofu.
"In our dynamic and interconnected world, a shock to one city can spread across the globe, and the urban poor are most vulnerable to these impacts," said Rockefeller Foundation Vice President, Global Communications Neill Coleman.
A deal with Netflix has also meant an interconnected new set of hero shows, which kicked off last month with Daredevil, a reinvention of the blind crime-fighting character, last played by Ben Affleck in 2003.
"We're all interconnected, we're no longer in a silo," says Malik.
Such dizzying numbers arise from the many different bits of specialised software running on so many interconnected devices, allowing the tiniest security gap to be prised open.If you are the sort to worry about this kind of thing, the worrying part is that they are the tip of the iceberg.
