12-16-2020, 07:49 AM
(12-15-2020, 11:22 PM)akiddoc Wrote: If we have a pandemic that starts killing at a 10% or 20% rate, I'm not sure you want to wait for elected officials to make decisions. Public health officers can be fired, so I'm not sure why people are so scared of the decisions they make.Exactly. The structure we have didn't come about by chance. It has evolved out of previous public health challenges that used to be much more common than they are today. We should benefit from that experience that we hopefully will not ourselves repeat.