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Dan Honig
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Associate Prof of Public Policy, @uclspp. Tweets mostly bureaucrats as heroes; power & peril of management by metrics; @PureMichigan; @tigers; & @SpursOfficial.

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    1. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      I, and I think others, were also applauding a Government that managed to have people like this man working for it, and the hope it gave me that America might just get through the pandemic whose peak in the US we were flying towards. I felt calmer than I had in a few hours. 10/

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    2. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      I’m currently writing a book on “Mission-Driven Bureaucrats” – that’s what I’d been researching in Senegal - and here was one standing right in front of me (and not the first - embassy staff in Dakar were also wonderful, dedicated, kind throughout this process). 11/

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    3. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      Also true to the narrative of the book, these Mission-Driven Bureaucrats are VERY hard to "see" most of the time. The relevant State Department Bureau (medical services) doesn’t have any obvious mention of Operations Medicine at all (https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-management/bureau-of-medical-services/ …). 12/pic.twitter.com/BDUPEalvHc

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    4. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      I only figure out who the director of Operations Medicine was (William Walters, a senior civil servant) by finding a right-wing screed criticizing him and State for bringing infected Americans home.(https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/obama-holdover-obscure-government-arm-helped-cause-daniel-greenfield/#.Xl3mRDw0BVA.twitter …) 13/

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    5. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      So I’m writing this in large part to say thank you to Mr. Walters, @StateDept, and all the other heroes – from grocery store attendants to hospital orderlies to doctors – sacrificing of themselves these weeks. 14/

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    6. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      But I also want to point out what happened after our flight from Senegal got to Washington Dulles, which I have less positive feelings about. We landed. A “mobile lounge” (a shuttle vehicle that normally carries passengers between terminals) pulled up to the plane's back door.15/

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    7. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      “Where are we going?”, I wondered. Given medical checks on the way onto the flight I assumed there would be some on the way off, too. And instructions about self-quarantining, or at least an orientation to local rules (Virginia already had a “shelter in place” order active). 16/

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    8. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      But no; nothing like that. Our mobile lounge pulled up to normal international arrivals. We used our global entry status as normal on the kiosks (thus touching keypads many others had presumably also touched), and had to go looking/asking for hand sanitizer afterwards. 17/

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    9. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      We went through normal baggage claim, received no instructions of any sort from anyone, and walked into America. Other than the airport being very unusually empty and the immigration officer wearing a mask, it was like any other international arrival. 18/

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    10. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      I arrived back to Senegal from a trip to Europe on March 3 on a commercial flight. My temperature was checked; I had to give my phone number on arrival; I had a cold, and thus was given a 14-day stay-in-place order, after which a doctor checked on me by phone every day. 19/

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      Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

      I arrived in America April 3 on a State Department medical evacuation flight. No medical check; no data collection; no instructions. A very critical month later, and the US still seems to be behind where Senegal had been a month prior on systems/policies. 20/

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        2. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

          Maybe there’s a reasonable logic to not bothering to contain spread from new arrivals given the existing scope of the spread in America; but if so, why the plane as it was? Hazmat suits on the plane and a standard “welcome to America” arrival on the ground don’t match. 21/

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        3. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

          And that’s the other reason I’m writing this. I celebrate the individuals working on behalf of government. But I also think I should share what I saw – and my worry that it suggests a policy response that continues to lag, or at least could benefit from further coordination.22/

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        4. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

          Probably more than enough from me, but maybe one last thing. The Jewish holiday of Passover starts tomorrow night, during which Jews around the world will tell the story of the Jews’ biblical exodus from Egypt. 23/

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        5. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

          In arguably the “climax” to the Passover action, as the 10th plague falls on Egypt, the Jews are not physically together; they are, rather, each in their own homes. A critical community moment occurs while the community is socially distanced, each 'sheltered in place'. 24/

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        6. Dan Honig‏ @rambletastic 7 Apr 2020

          I hope we look back at this as a time that brought us together, and just maybe that led us to recognize the heroism and sacrifices of those we may oft overlook (h/t @MollyKinder). Thanks for reading; hope you and yours are and remain well. (end)

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        1. Chrissy Scheller‏ @_cscheller 7 Apr 2020
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          When I returned from Mali in 2014, I had a health screening at Dulles and reported my temperature to the health dept for 21 days, despite only a few Ebola cases in Mali at the time. So absurd that screening systems exist, were just not using them. Hope you stay safe and healthy!

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        1. Mary Benak‏ @mjbmab1 7 Apr 2020
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        1. Irvine Old Driver 🇺🇦‏ @irvineolddriver 7 Apr 2020
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          Exactly. My wife arrived at LAX from China on 4/5, no medical screening or special process at all. It seems irresponsible but compared to domestic Coronavirus situation, it doesn’t surprise me at all. Here in CA, local community spread is much worse than international arrival

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        1. Jock O'Connell‏ @jockoconnell 7 Apr 2020
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          We arrived at SFO on March 20 from Spain. We did receive a medical check in the jetway before being allowed into the airport. The medical check was performed by San Mateo County Health Department officials and paramedics. No CDC or other Feds.

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        1. Evelyne  🙏‏ @evelynedeleeuw 8 Apr 2020
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          I bet @realDonaldTrump will blame @WHO @DrTedros for the lack of instructions (and wrongly so)...

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