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It is what it is: Ineptitude and consequence

It is what it is: Ineptitude and consequence

Huck, Mark

Paperback

21st Century United States History

ISBN13: 9798678486325
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2020
Pages: 724
Weight: 3.11
Height: 1.45 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In retrospect it was an avoidable disaster. Before the pandemic washed ashore on U.S. beaches, other countries grappled with it. There were earlier epidemics. These guideposts were ignored. As we learned for ourselves in the moment, even our own guideposts were ignored, even mocked. The fault lay not only with the nation's leadership, but also with its people. Science and scientists were the guiding star, and the only star. Only scientists could map and interpret the virus' path. Leaders and the led all too often ignored that light.The unparalleled economic and personal pain of 2020 was avoidable. The U.S. had the opportunity to flex its medical, economic, and social muscle to bump the virus back into the ocean. We didn't. Instead, our leaders flailed and our people griped. At the close of the year, nearly 200,000 had perished in the U.S. alone. Without reason.It was as though all the learning that had occurred from 1918 onwards to the ever-moving present was forgotten. To be sure, there were many in the medical community who screamed about the dangers. These were screams in a vacuum.This journal continues Flying Blind (published April 2020) capturing and assessing -- including over a hundred charts -- the day-by-day progress of the pandemic, U.S. Presidential leadership, and citizen behavior, mixed in with the daily life of the author.

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