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Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam who wrote (423)	4/2/2020 12:15:10 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 22886

The top level decision maker would be Trump or someone he appoints (who still has to answer to him so he's still the top). Congress might way in on the bigger issues, but its divided and everyone is mostly deferring to the executive during the crisis, except when you have to bring in congress (like when they want to spend a lot more money). Even if Trump would defer to the person he appoints (and Trump isn't exactly big on deffering to others) it would still be someone he appoints, not someone some magically perfect president appoints. Its real world politics. But that isn't the only problem. No one has or reasonably could have expertise in all the relevant areas, down to things like the production capabilities of each individual companies and their suppliers etc. Its too much for one person to know. Even simplifying the economic management to a limited range of products that are considered highly relevant to dealing with the crisis still leaves you with a complex economic, financial, political, and obviously medical issue. And in reality you can't ignore everything else you also have to consider possible impacts on the rest of the economy. Or putting someone who doesn't believe in the task In this case that would actually be a good idea. Someone with the humility to recognize their limits and the limits that anyone even the most incredible genius would face in trying to deal with such a job.