I used to think the CDC had things under control, and that if there was an epidemic coming, they'd know well in advance and ensure the appropriate measures were taken.https://twitter.com/YAppelbaum/status/1243600492988637193 …
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I have less faith in general in "the authorities" as a result of this epidemic. I'm involved in several different efforts to fight Covid-19 (PPE, testing, vaccines, etc) and the weak link in all of them is some government body.
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It is the business mind set of optimizing for “just what you need” rooted in maximizing sharedholder value that has left government functions ill-prepared. You can’t conjure up specialists and empower them on the spot as we just witnessed.
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the fish rots from the head
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I really struggle to think of a single thing government does better than an incentivized privately owned company or orginaization
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Collect taxes, run a military, do statecraft, maintain nuclear arsenal...
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Damn. How do we fix it?
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Well that shouldn't come as a surprise after it has been the main strategy of +/-50% of the country to cut back or dismantle the capacity of government bodies since Reagan ...
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