If you do a little to prevent the infection, you won't need to do alot to cure it. If you wash your hands, you stop a strep throat infection. But if you don't, you could get the infection, and have to do alot to stop it.
Mitigation
An 'ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure' is the saying. It means that it normally takes less (an ounce) in time, resources to stop a problem from occurring than it does (a pound) to fix the problem after it has already occurred.
Benjamin Franklin - 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.'
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ~Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Preparedness
1 (an) Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.
A. preparedness
This is pretty much saying that its a hell of a lot better, safer and wiser to prevent yourself from acquiring a disease than to get the disease and spend time, effort and money trying to cure yourself.
Rule that usually works
It is an old expression trying to explain that it will be wise and of less effort or cost to prevent an accident or un-wanted happening rather than fixing it afterwards (cure) (which may be more costly or take more of an effort).An ounce is of course much smaller than a pound and the expression is not about physical weight but rather that of the difference in magnitude / effort / cost.
Prevention does not have a price tag. It's value is intangable. However, there is one great saying that alot of people go buy, and it doesn't matter what field you are in."An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"Hope this helped!