We faltered because of our failure to consider risk in its full context, especially when dealing with coupled risk-when multiple things can go wrong together. We had time to prepare for this pandemic at the state, local, and household level, even if the government was terribly lagging, but we squandered it because of widespread asystemic thinking: the inability to think about complex systems and their dynamics. Those are both true, but they don’t fully explain the current global crisis that has engulfed countries of varying political persuasions.Īs it turns out, the reality-based, science-friendly communities and information sources many of us depend on also largely failed. Many will be tempted to see the tragic coronavirus pandemic through a solely partisan lens: The Trump administration spectacularly failed in its response, by cutting funding from essential health services and research before the crisis, and later by denying its existence and its severity.
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