04-18-2021, 05:00 PM
The thing that bothers me most is that a year in and we do not have a consistent system whereby important metrics are discussed and hard thresholds set for specific tiers of lockdown. We have tiers of lockdown, most of which have been not of use to the GTA since December, but we don't know what triggers changes between them.
This virus and the variants change. It's impossible to have a plan for this. But there are many different kinds of dangers in the pipeline. Covid may be just as permanent as the flu, what are we going to do if it is? What are we going to do when the next pandemic hits? What models do we have to manage environmental dangers that may impact our ability in similar ways?
It's reasonable to expect our systems to be wrong, many many people were asleep at the anti-pandemic-mobile's wheel, but to not make clear commitments to specific actions that allow individuals and corporations to make plans. Even if they're wrong at least there's some expectations to build on, a course to correct.
The best businesses clearly communicate their goals such that anyone in the corporation who gives half a fuck can sign on and push the ship in the same direction. I don't think governments should be run like businesses, but it's a model that carries a lot of weight. Fine, using it, Ford is a CEO who is unable to clearly set a vision and empower the people who follow his lead. He's not guiding the province through this, he's at the back pushing a bunch of people in front and telling us to move left after the right flank gets exploded.
This virus and the variants change. It's impossible to have a plan for this. But there are many different kinds of dangers in the pipeline. Covid may be just as permanent as the flu, what are we going to do if it is? What are we going to do when the next pandemic hits? What models do we have to manage environmental dangers that may impact our ability in similar ways?
It's reasonable to expect our systems to be wrong, many many people were asleep at the anti-pandemic-mobile's wheel, but to not make clear commitments to specific actions that allow individuals and corporations to make plans. Even if they're wrong at least there's some expectations to build on, a course to correct.
The best businesses clearly communicate their goals such that anyone in the corporation who gives half a fuck can sign on and push the ship in the same direction. I don't think governments should be run like businesses, but it's a model that carries a lot of weight. Fine, using it, Ford is a CEO who is unable to clearly set a vision and empower the people who follow his lead. He's not guiding the province through this, he's at the back pushing a bunch of people in front and telling us to move left after the right flank gets exploded.