04-08-2020, 08:17 PM
(04-08-2020, 12:33 PM)Genuine Realist Wrote: I'm very slow to use themes of incompetence and bungling. In my experience, the easiest problems to solve are someone else's. What's for sure is that the CDC was caught flatfooted by a phenomenon well beyond anything it had prepared for. Pearl Harbor analogies are appropriate.
I don't think the Pearl Harbor analogy is apt. Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. This is more like our Chernobyl: denied, downplayed, and then mismanaged.
