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Red Dawn Breaking Bad: email chain of US officials on covid19 (Jan28-Mar17) [pdf]
- dirtyid 7y agoInteresting insight into early concerns, analysis and predictions by subject matter experts at the time. TL;DR: extracts from two points in time. >Great Understatements in History: >Napoleon's retreat from Moscow - "just a little stroll gone bad" >Pompeii - "a bit of a dust storm" >Hiroshima - "a bad summer heat wave" >Wuhan- "just a bad flu season" Jan28 >We are making every misstep leaders initially made in table -tops at the outset of pandemic planning in 2006. We had systematically addressed all of these and had a plan that would work - and has worked in Hong Kong/Singapore . We have thrown 15 years of institutional learning out the window and are making decisions based on intuition. >Pilots can tell you what happens when a crew makes decisions based on intuition rather than what their instruments are telling them. >And we continue to push the stick forward... Mar12 Relevant write up here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-red-dawn-emails-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-r...