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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 7952821" data-attributes="member: 6693711">It's the "given where we are now" part that is the most frustrating. When this is all over, we need to take a serious look at the failures all along the line that led to us not using the time and warning we had to properly prepare for this crisis. I'm on the "inside" somewhat, in that the lab where I work is currently doing testing and speaking every day with the healthcare system in our area, and I can tell you that we are STILL not prepared for the level of threat that this virus poses, not by a long shot. And those preparations would have been far, far easier to make months ago, when the economy wasn't shut down and resources weren't being pulled in a million directions. And that's not getting into things like the FDA rejecting the WHO test or the failure to ramp up our stores of PPE and testing equipment in the years since the last pandemic.But yeah, in the middle of a crisis, we deal with what's in front of us. Minimize the suffering by whatever means we can take, don't spend valuable time on what-ifs.Once the crisis is past, we need to understand why we flocked it up so incredibly badly, and where necessary heads are gonna have to roll when it's discovered that people knew better and weren't raising a fuss because they didn't want to upset the central government/wanted to profit/had ideological reasons to ignore it for personal power/were deeply stupid and people suffered and died for that stupidity.</blockquote>

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