Pandemic

Now that everyone is evaluating the way the pandemic was handled, I want to review what I have said in the past and expand on the idea. I will use the analogy of a manufacturing plant something that I am familiar with. If you are producing wigets the production manager wants to make as many as possible and the quality control manager wants to make each widget perfect. When these two people work together you get a product that is acceptable in quantity and quality. The plant manager is responsible for both quality and quantity as is the final arbiter in any disputes. The major mistake made during the pandemic was putting the quality control manager, Dr Fouci, in complete control. If people got sick and/or died he knew his bottom was on the line so the safest thing for him to do was to go all out on quality. He did what was necessary to cover his behind if and when people died. If the whole country shut and went into a deep recession it would be no skin off his teeth. There was no balancing force. We needed someone on the quantity side and then allow the plant manager (president) to handle any disputes.