The pandemic playbook was designed to manage and mitigate “communication dilemmas”, not execute a strategic health response — which isn’t necessarily incompeten

The pandemic playbook was designed to manage and mitigate “communication dilemmas”, not execute a strategic health response — which isn’t necessarily incompetent. It’s prescient enough to recognize that our greatest danger isn’t a virus but paralysis and inertia, a struggle to digest information and propaganda, an inability to understand or engage with one another, distrust and inefficacy crippling our institutions, waning authority of media and journalism, etc. For anyone who hasn’t read through John Hopkins simulated SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028 it’s pretty interesting [0]. They discuss controversies concerning medical treatments, anti-vaxxers, and strategies to engage in propaganda wars on social media. Disclaimer: not wearing a tinfoil hat, no the report isn’t part of a conspiracy to railroad the population into vaccines, but it does reveal a certain ineptitude and bad faith. [0] https://jhsphcenterforhealthsecurity.s3.amazonaws.com/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf https://jhsphcenterforhealthsecurity.s3.amazonaws.com/spars-...