Mostly just why, over and over again, people in positions of power utterly fumble their handling of a disaster. They get too focused on 'perception management', hiding the problem, and controlling information instead of, you know... Actually leading and taking care of their people.
Its the sort of behavior that seems so cliche in movies. The kind of thing you think wouldn't really happen. At least, not in an open society like ours. Because ofc fumbling the response to a disaster is going to make you lose politically, and you can't truly hide a death toll.
And yet...
I have clearly had to reevaluate how likely it is for duly elected leaders to think like this. The arguments about preventing panic, the comments about treating the disaster as a public relations problem instead of actually handling the disaster. It's all pretty much on the nose for Trump's attempt to handle the coronavirus, at least as far as I can tell from various articles and posts.
At least this article offers some sort of (mistaken) logic for what seemed, to me at least, to be an obviously dumb and grossly negligent response.
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