Opinion: The White House is presenting the Fyre Festival of pandemic responses
At the very least, their executives’ names could be dropped, with permission sought afterward, asa few weeks ago when the White House announced its new economic advisory group before notifying some of its conscripted members.
Take it from the Fyre fraudsters: Forget the organizing, expertise, planning, budgeting, any of that other boring stuff. When in doubt, up the hype.Most of the country has been shuttered for months. It’s been an economically and psychologically taxing ordeal, one that was intended to buy federal officials time to develop a strategy to defeat the pandemic.
response team. Yet we are no closer to understanding what, if anything, the federal government’s plan is for safely resuming economic activity. Or what numbers, if any, federal officials are using to assess risk.The public health experts at those briefings who advise hitting necessary benchmarks or building test-and-tracing infrastructure get slandered — by Trump allies, no less — as wet blankets or even deep-state subversives.
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