Interesting 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.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] thread>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-r...