I would not disagree with this being a good time for advocacy! I suspect we’ll have at least one bigger shock still, and planning accordingly seems worthwhile. Walk and chew gum, etc.
The point of the post is not that we shouldn’t be doing everything we can to stop a potential “epidemic”. It’s that we should have a plan for what to do when an “epidemic” happens anyways and there is enormous amounts of political capital suddenly available to get things done.
The point is that when or if that fire hose ever opens we should have a plan to point it at the fire because we won’t have time to aim. We could very easily point the fire house in the wrong direction as has occurred often in history.
Great post, excepct, maybe now is the time to be going out and pushing for policies?
I would not disagree with this being a good time for advocacy! I suspect we’ll have at least one bigger shock still, and planning accordingly seems worthwhile. Walk and chew gum, etc.
The point of the post is not that we shouldn’t be doing everything we can to stop a potential “epidemic”. It’s that we should have a plan for what to do when an “epidemic” happens anyways and there is enormous amounts of political capital suddenly available to get things done.
The point is that when or if that fire hose ever opens we should have a plan to point it at the fire because we won’t have time to aim. We could very easily point the fire house in the wrong direction as has occurred often in history.
“When or if”—what if it is open now