Whatever everyone’s political persuasion, it deserves to be transparent now to all Americans that our country and our world have jointly failed in our reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.For long-term pandemics, the time has come to find out what has gone wrong and how: in combination, we can do it.As an essential first step, Congress deserves to identify without delay a bipartisan national commission, inspired by the 9/11 Commission, to prepare a complete and complete account of 4 key errors and what we can do about it.
First, the commission is expected to read about the origins of the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak last year.Some theories have connected the Wuhan Chinese Institute of Virology with a viral pattern strongly connected to SARS-Cov-2 and guilty of the deaths of inflamed miners in a bat-infested cave in southern China in 2012, while some scientists and the Chinese government insist that the epidemic began in the wild, another evidence raises the unanswered question of whether COVID-19 may have come from an accidental release in The Great Cover-up china, that many reports have included denying visas to Researchers at the World Health Organization (WHO) during the first critical weeks, destroying evidence, silencing scientists, final laboratories braously seeking data percentages, and the “disappearance” of citizen hounds.just greater fear and confusion. The other American people, and everyone else, want to know for sure where this epidemic came from.sources to consult to get to the back of this critical problem.
Second, the committee would read about court cases for which WHO has not responded effectively.There is no doubt that WHO may have addressed Chinese obfuscation and misinformation more critically, or sounded the alarm a little earlier.organization chained through design. It is not mandated to carry out its own pathogen surveillance network or to send emergency investigators to the site of an epidemic despite a country’s objections; you don’t even control most of your own budget.The committee will discuss how WHO may have done more important work.More importantly, you will read about how we failed to jointly build the global public infrastructure type for pandemic and fitness coverage.that may have stopped this pandemic, and what we will need to do now to deal with it, adding assistance to update and WHO.
Third, the commission would read about the catastrophic failure of the United States to prepare for and respond to the pandemic. Regardless of the transgressions, failures, or shortcomings of China and the WHO, this failure of the US is potentially one of the reasons that more Americans have died from COVID-19 than others in any other country. country. President Trump Minimizes Risk and Undermines Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Donald John Trump Birx says he is hopeful for the coronavirus vaccine, but urges others to ‘do the right thing today. McGahn argued that Kushner’s security clearance deserves to be downgraded: Wisconsin Governor urges Trump not to call at Kenosha: “ I fear your presence will only obstruct our healing. which played a key role in the American disaster. Even six months after the pandemic started, the United States still lacks the immediate testing, touch tracking, or other critical functions so desperately desired. But it would be folly to blame the Trump administration alone for the steady decline of America’s public fitness infrastructure over decades, under both Democratic and Republican administrations. To fix what is so clearly broken, we want to perceive everything that has happened for decades and resolve our greatest disorders as if our lives depended on it. They do.
Fourth, the Committee would chart the way forward to read about the extent to which we are dangerously ill, preparing for many other catastrophic events, from a nuclear turn of fate to a climate catastrophe.Preparing for one of those situations, without examining the full diversity of those threats, would only push us to continually jump from the pan to the fire.Then we can begin to build the necessary structures and systems to prepare (or better yet prevent) long-term crises.While examining the entire pantheon of existential threats is too onerous for the commission, you can at least sketch a paint box for a follow-up commission that explores those broader issues.
Some might think that building such a commission while the pandemic is still in full swing would be like launching the 9/11 commission while the Twin Towers were still falling, but wouldn’t it have been better to do that than to have a blind interaction between two people?wars without in-depth research and a long-term strategy?Getting to the back of our current crisis isn’t just an intellectual exercise.The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, but there is no guarantee that an even worse pandemic, generally an overloaded probability through an artificial pathogen, can also be imminent.
Others might recommend that this is not the time to point your finger, but what’s the point of having hands if you don’t point out our greatest dangers?We’ll have to point the finger, but do it honestly and self-critically.way, in order to solve the basic problems.
Many might be susceptible to viewing the November election as a referendum on the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, and therefore seeking to postpone a thorough investigation until a new Congress and potentially a new president arrives. That would be a mistake on both sides. For the Democrats it would be better to create a bipartisan national commission now than to wait and that the effort turns out for many Americans as an act of political retaliation, for the Republicans it would possibly be better to recognize that we are facing a national crisis. and being noticed as a response to it, rather than heading to a choice pretending we are making it.
This crisis is not a Democratic or Republican problem, it is a national and global problem.This virus does not stop in our political calendar, nor is it addressed to us on the basis of our political affiliations, nor to us.The rapid status quo of a bipartisan national commission on the COVID-19 crisis is our most productive course of action.
Jamie Metzl is a generation futurist, lead researcher at the Atlantic Council and a member of the International Advisory Committee on the Publication of the Human Genome of the World Health Organization.He is the author of five books, and added “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity” (2019).In the past he served on the National Security Council and the State Department, the Clinton administration and the United Nations.The criticisms expressed are yours. Follow him on Twitter @jamiemetzl.
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