[fullmetal]

When a neighbor's house catches fire while they're away, you have a choice to call 911 or to not call 911.  When the fire spreads to your house, it is a little too late to call 911 and save your house.  Not only did we not call 911 early enough (i.e. listen to the experts), we turned away from that neighbor deliberately so that we could not see their house burning.

We might have been able to get details earlier before the CCP censorship kicked in if we had not blinded our disease surveillance apparatus in China.  Those US personnel built relationships with Chinese disease control experts and might have been able to get the straight story somehow.  The fact that we had these positions in place (probably post-SARS) means that the CDC knew a new outbreak was going to happen eventually.  

Imagine if we had stopped the virus at the Chinese border and didn't have to close down the non-essential economy.  That is the price of failed vigilance.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN21910S
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN21C3N5
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cu...rus-2020-2


Okay even after you fumble the ball inside your own 20, there's a defensive playbook for situational strategies.  The plans are there, so no time needs to be wasted developing blitz packages or assignments -- just execute.  Well...it looks like we just fumbled the ball and then decided to also throw out the playbook.  So now we're playing sandlot defense against a ruthless offense.

https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-...75dbc.html


Where are the coaches?  Why wasn't anyone calling the defensive signals in just after the fumble?  Looks like the Athletic Director grabbed the mic from the coaches and started a pep talk.  We gave up an immediate first down before the Athletic Director relented and gave the mic back to the coaches.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...om-the-cdc


Now it's third and short, and boy do we need a stop.  Do we really care what city the other team is from?  No, but next time let's not skip film study that might have told us all about the opposing team's tendencies and schemes.

[fullmetal]

When a neighbor's house catches fire while they're away, you have a choice to call 911 or to not call 911.  When the fire spreads to your house, it is a little too late to call 911 and save your house.  Not only did we not call 911 early enough (i.e. listen to the experts), we turned away from that neighbor deliberately so that we could not see their house burning.

We might have been able to get details earlier before the CCP censorship kicked in if we had not blinded our disease surveillance apparatus in China.  Those US personnel built relationships with Chinese disease control experts and might have been able to get the straight story somehow.  The fact that we had these positions in place (probably post-SARS) means that the CDC knew a new outbreak was going to happen eventually.  

Imagine if we had stopped the virus at the Chinese border and didn't have to close down the non-essential economy.  That is the price of failed vigilance.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN21910S
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN21C3N5
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cu...rus-2020-2


Okay even after you fumble the ball inside your own 20, there's a defensive playbook for situational strategies.  The plans are there, so no time needs to be wasted developing blitz packages or assignments -- just execute.  Well...it looks like we just fumbled the ball and then decided to also throw out the playbook.  So now we're playing sandlot defense against a ruthless offense.

https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-...75dbc.html


Where are the coaches?  Why wasn't anyone calling the defensive signals in just after the fumble?  Looks like the Athletic Director grabbed the mic from the coaches and started a pep talk.  We gave up an immediate first down before the Athletic Director relented and gave the mic back to the coaches.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...om-the-cdc


Now it's third and short, and boy do we need a stop.  Do we really care what city the other team is from?  No, but next time let's not skip film study that might have told us all about the opposing team's tendencies and schemes.