05-10-2020, 08:43 PM
(05-10-2020, 12:19 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The CDC normally puts forth rather blunt documents saying what to do with a particular health threat. They have not done so with the virus as the White House wanted a different public relations message to get out. The CDC has prepped messages, but either they get watered down or cancelled due to administration censorship.
Il Duce ha sempre raggione!
We have a President who ignores expertise yet cannot stand criticism. Somehow I prefer fact-based, knowledge-based leadership that has the ego of the leader as a lower priority than the results. Maybe I exaggerate by comparing Trump to Mussolini, but even baby steps toward despotism are ominous.
Quote:That is one thing that can be done in the crisis end never again conferences. Somebody might tell The World Health Organization to ignore the politicians and to do what the CDC usually does, to write blunt, scientific advice on how to respond to a given health threat. There might be a treaty written that if the WHO wants to investigate a health threat, nobody stops their investigators.
There would be resistance in countries that have dangerous working conditions and environmental degradation as shortcuts to economic development. That could be almost as bad as efforts of some countries to subvert the monitoring of the proliferation of atomic, biological, and chemical weapons. Such reflects the character of some regimes.
Another thing to be done might be to make sure each country has good reserves of things like PPE and ventilators or things like ventilators that might be required to counter other sorts of bugs. They might even create their own reserves for countries with governments without be prepared mentalities, though there is the temptation to let such countries stew in their own juices.
Quote:Anything else that might happen at crisis end?
A new normal for which most Americans are well prepared.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.