It is perhaps human nature to be underprepared for threats that do not occur frequently. My hope is that we can learn some lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that we apparently did not learn from pandemics past.
Below are some types of thinking that I feel have hampered our response to COVID-19. 1. Political thinking. I can understand why some people are viewing the pandemic through a political lens when from the start, elected officials were making policy decisions about the pandemic.
Most politicians are not experienced in public health, yet the policies they set in place have huge public health implications as well as an effect on all other aspects of our lives.
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