COVID reveals consequences of our collective decision to coast, to pretend we’re making progress while stagnating, to neglect boring, expensive maintenance of critical systems.
@pmarca’s inspiring call to action, if you somehow missed it:https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1251634412334141440 …
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"Collective", eh? As
@cory_foy points out, the people who work in disaster preparedness weren't allowed to be part of that collective decision. Pretty much anyone concerned with resilience was excluded. I don't agree with all of https://blog.coryfoy.com/2020/04/its-time-to-act-a-response-to-marc-andreessen/ … but it's worth a read.2 replies 2 retweets 3 likes -
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It's telling that the word "resilience" doesn't appear in the original essay. (Nor does the concept, so far as a quick scanning reread shows.) Given that resilience is the main thing "we" (as opposed to, say, South Korea post-SARS) failed to build, that's a huge blind spot. ...
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... I'm disheartened by the number of people with bullhorns who are saying - just as they do in every disaster - "See! This just goes to show how right I was all along." I want people who rethink. ...
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... (In your terms, I'm tired of people who succeeded hugely in one system clinging to it despite strong new evidence of ways in which it is not complete. Very Stage 4.)
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Well fwiw I took the essay as mainly saying “we have to stop fooling around and actually do stuff.” I don’t think it matters much what systemic framework is put around that. What’s missing is the will, the choice.
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The big concern I have with that is people thinking what we need are more contact-tracing apps, or preparedness apps, or apps. We have a systemic failure of government at many levels coupled with extraordinary efforts to keep control (gerrymandering, etc) and a loss of empathy.
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Yes, absolutely!
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