what we need is flexibility and good judgment (duh). in a crisis we need coordination and compromise, in "peacetime" we need the opposite. it's hard to give up

what we need is flexibility and good judgment (duh). in a crisis we need coordination and compromise, in "peacetime" we need the opposite. it's hard to give up the simple mantras, but if we want more efficiency we need more complexity in our policies. > I believe the anti-public health measures tantrum will be used to justify a lot more draconian measures when the next global disaster comes around. on one hand, that might help to decrease the spread, on the other hand, spending resources on measures that are easy to enforce, but still not terribly effective is a bad trade off. (for example testing a lot more and organizing our life around respecting the result is a lot less draconian than simply shutting everything down, yet these nuances were mostly lost on people.)