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Again for the umpteenth time they took it seriously because they had a near-death experience with another virus from China only 17 years ago and they& #39;ve been preparing for exactly this kind of situation
We on the other hand spent 17 years preparing for Al-Qaeda again https://twitter.com/vermontgmg/status/1245752317049221121">https://twitter.com/vermontgm...
We on the other hand spent 17 years preparing for Al-Qaeda again https://twitter.com/vermontgmg/status/1245752317049221121">https://twitter.com/vermontgm...
If you want to take issue with the US preparation or lack thereof for a major public health crisis you have to go back to the beginning of the century not just Donny & friends
It hasn& #39;t been a priority for decades
It shouldn& #39;t be that surprising that we massively screwed it up
It hasn& #39;t been a priority for decades
It shouldn& #39;t be that surprising that we massively screwed it up
like my point here that I keep coming back to isn& #39;t to try and throw our hands up and say "Oh well, who cares big deal we didn& #39;t know how to do it!"
Rather to drive home the point that we can deal with what we prepare for and that the optimism here is that we will prepare better
Rather to drive home the point that we can deal with what we prepare for and that the optimism here is that we will prepare better
Like one corollary to this that we actually did prepare a little better for because we dealt with it only 12 years ago is massive coordinated central bank action on a scale that dwarfs almost anything before
Why? Because we quantitatively eased our way out of the last one
Why? Because we quantitatively eased our way out of the last one
Is that enough to solve everything? No.
But it& #39;s a hell of a lot better than not having it. Crisis preparation tends to be iterative You don& #39;t prepare for what you& #39;re not concerned might happen to you
And you don& #39;t know what might happen to you until it actually does
But it& #39;s a hell of a lot better than not having it. Crisis preparation tends to be iterative You don& #39;t prepare for what you& #39;re not concerned might happen to you
And you don& #39;t know what might happen to you until it actually does
And people who tend to make a lot of noise about preparing for something that hasn& #39;t happened or at least hasn& #39;t happened on a scale that they& #39;re warning about tend to be dismissed as cranks, goofs, and Cassandras
We have an in-built tendency to believe that crises won& #39;t happen
We have an in-built tendency to believe that crises won& #39;t happen
And of course many people who do warn about big huge disasters that have never happened before *ARE* In fact crazy.
We shouldn& #39;t overcorrect to this by suddenly believing that every crisis is an inevitability
We shouldn& #39;t overcorrect to this by suddenly believing that every crisis is an inevitability
The tragedy of this particular crisis is that it was not simply foreseeable but in fact foreseen by people who had actual useful actionable ideas, which we had plenty of time and resources to implement in advance of the crisis
THAT was the tragedy of Cassandra. She saw it all told them all and no one believed her
