MetaJess

In the US the people who reacted early to the virus mostly didn't seem to have been working in gov or public health and instead had been hoovered up by tech jobs- so you could get great info from their twitter feeds but they couldn't influence the state.

I think one reason why tech people were unusually good here is that the situation was novel, volatile and deviated from the status quo. In those circs, relying on socially transmitted information is risky, and people who are good at rethinking from first principles tend to thrive