6/10/2023 0 Comments Writeitnow organizing![]() So there’s a lot of things that are going to be put in place. I mean, masks are mandated, and my school will be keeping kids in defined social pods to try to reduce the likelihood of transmission within the school. But I have a district that is very vigilant. ![]() I’m comfortable sending my kids to school. And I’m surprised that at a policy level, Congress and others haven’t started to contemplate what kind of steps we need to take that next pandemic. I don’t think we’ve done anything to really think about how do we prevent the next pandemic. We remain almost equally vulnerable to threat from the next pandemic. The result was that we remain persistently at risk in covid’s evolution. And while there was plenty of political mistakes along the way, especially by the Trump administration early in the epidemic, I think a lot of the very corrosive shortcomings were at an agency level, especially at the CDC, where in many cases we had an ill-prepared bureaucracy, and in other cases the institutions that we relied on just weren’t equipped and empowered to execute the kind of response that was needed. ![]() I think a lot of the initial focus was on all the political failures. Part of the problem is we really haven’t looked at the more systemic shortcomings that left this nation weak in the face of this virus. We haven’t done a good job keeping up with the twists and turns of this virus and the emergence of the delta variant and how much it’s engulfed this nation. I think we haven’t done an adequate job really reflecting on everything that went wrong that left us excessively vulnerable to covid, both the early spread as well as the continued vulnerability.
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