Opinion: The lessons we can learn for a post-coronavirus world
for complaining about an outbreak on his ship; telling states to fend for themselves; demonizing the media; and making part of the public blind to oncoming dangers). We look for solace where we can find it — in the thousands of volunteers helping in the health-care system; in competent governors; in one of the most accomplished House speakers in history; and in science itself.
He reeled off a list of things we will need to consider or reconsider: “How do you make the economy more resilient? What happens when something like this happens again? . . . How do governments work together? . . . Well why weren’t we ready with a tele-education system? Why weren’t we better with telemedicine?”We cannot rely on in-person voting systems.
Have a permanent inspector general and congressional oversight body empowered to monitor and report to the public on disaster relief/stimulus bills. Create an office within the Pentagon with specific jurisdiction over the national stockpile of emergency equipment and material with requirements for frequent audits, quality control and distribution.
The directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Emergency Management Agency should, like the FBI director, serve for 10-year terms that overlap administrations.pandemic should stanch the urge to elect political leaders who disparage expertise, deny widely accepted scientific findings and do not read. The right’s anti-intellectual bent and its hostility toward independent sources of information is dangerous and, indeed, life-threatening.
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