Quote Originally Posted by ReluctantSamurai View Post
I won't have to. The many thousands of dead will do the talking.....
Hindsight is always 20/20, so it is said.

Please tell me, now, how we should prepare to handle the next disaster/crisis/health threat. Then tell me how we can fully fund that preparation. Then tell me how we can fully fund ALL of the potential threat mitigations that will probably needed at some point in the future but at a point in the future of which we cannot be certain.

Of course you cannot, and nobody could. That is my point.

There are not, never have been, and likely never could be enough resources to be prepared constantly for all things that might turn 'bad.' So our governments make choices and yes, they sometimes malf it up. That's the nature of things with decision making and resources.

So, if you would like to bitch about poor choices, responses, and decisions FOLLOWING the advent of this health crisis -- say long about January 2020 -- you have a legitimate grievance to voice (and I would agree with you that waiting until Northern Italy imploded was NOT effective leadership).