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Leadership is exactly about organizing groups of experts to fight against specific threats to the common good. The point isn't that local officials should have
by koheripbal 7y ago
Leadership is exactly about organizing groups of experts to fight against specific threats to the common good.
The point isn't that local officials should have been working in the hospitals, it is that they should have been collecting the infectious disease experts and executing against a containment and mitigation plan.
- jessaustin 7y agoAre you a "West Wing" fan? The whole point of a unitary centrally-controlled state apparatus like that in China is that leadership of the type you describe does not exist. If it did exist, it would not exist locally. Local officials are to follow directions, which come from more central authorities. Sometimes they follow directions poorly, because they're more concerned with their personal well-being than that of their subjects. That's understandable, because those orders themselves came from the same motivation on their bosses' parts. Am I criticizing the form of government that the Chinese people endure? Yes! It is much like most other forms of government endured by humanity.