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Amazing. It shows us that the power law is at work in government effectiveness. A capable executive branch can get orders of magnitude more accomplished in a g
by danenania 7y ago
Amazing. It shows us that the power law is at work in government effectiveness.
A capable executive branch can get orders of magnitude more accomplished in a given timeframe than an inept one.
It’s likely that thousands will die who didn’t have to because many American voters forgot the importance of a baseline level of administrative competence. Hopefully this will remind them.
- cheese4242 7y agoI'm not convinced things would have played out much differently under any other administration to be honest. Note that many other western countries are struggling as well.
- empath75 7y agoI have a metaphysical certainly that Obama would have handled this better are you kidding me. Even Bush would have.
- danenania 7y agoIt seems indisputable that if we had manufactured a million tests in the first two weeks after cases started showing up, we’d be a lot better off right now. And realistically, “a lot” is probably a massive understatement. Rare as they are in politics, we have a case where two presidential administrations faced almost directly analogous challenges. The results would appear to speak for themselves.
- cheese4242 7y ago"directly analogous challenges"? I don't buy it. This is unprecedented.
- danenania 7y agoThe need to rapidly scale up testing for a dangerous new pathogen clearly is not unprecedented, considering it happened during the previous administration. It seems pretty analogous to me, apart from the stakes turning out to be much higher this time around :-/