[oregontim]

An excellent read, thanks. And all about the pandemic, not just 'gratuitous' politics.

At the risk of running afoul of the Terry rule with the subject heading (for those who don’t know, “the Flight 93 Election” was a piece put out during the 2016 campaign making the case that like flight 93 on 9/11/2001, we were headed for a disaster if we elected Hillary Clinton and could only save the country by metaphorically wrestling the controls from the terrorists), I am linking a piece by James Fallows, who is a former Jimmy Carter speechwriter and amateur pilot (and whatever you think of his politics, a thoughtful and engaging writer) doing an NTSB style crash analysis on the response to the pandemic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...ng/613591/

During the past two months, I have had lengthy conversations with some 30 scientists, health experts, and past and current government officials—all of them people with firsthand knowledge of what our response to the coronavirus pandemic should have been, could have been, and actually was. The government officials had served or are still serving in the uniformed military, on the White House staff, or in other executive departments, and in various intelligence agencies. Some spoke on condition of anonymity, given their official roles. As I continued these conversations, the people I talked with had noticeably different moods. First, in March and April, they were astonished and puzzled about what had happened. Eventually, in May and June, they were enraged.

BC

[oregontim]

An excellent read, thanks. And all about the pandemic, not just 'gratuitous' politics.

At the risk of running afoul of the Terry rule with the subject heading (for those who don’t know, “the Flight 93 Election” was a piece put out during the 2016 campaign making the case that like flight 93 on 9/11/2001, we were headed for a disaster if we elected Hillary Clinton and could only save the country by metaphorically wrestling the controls from the terrorists), I am linking a piece by James Fallows, who is a former Jimmy Carter speechwriter and amateur pilot (and whatever you think of his politics, a thoughtful and engaging writer) doing an NTSB style crash analysis on the response to the pandemic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...ng/613591/

During the past two months, I have had lengthy conversations with some 30 scientists, health experts, and past and current government officials—all of them people with firsthand knowledge of what our response to the coronavirus pandemic should have been, could have been, and actually was. The government officials had served or are still serving in the uniformed military, on the White House staff, or in other executive departments, and in various intelligence agencies. Some spoke on condition of anonymity, given their official roles. As I continued these conversations, the people I talked with had noticeably different moods. First, in March and April, they were astonished and puzzled about what had happened. Eventually, in May and June, they were enraged.

BC