{"id":2459,"date":"2024-06-18T08:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2024-06-18T08:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:51:06","slug":"post-covid-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Post-COVID reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Keying off Kevin Drum&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jabberwocking.com\/the-lessons-of-covid\">The lessons of COVID<\/a>, which is a good start but too limited in imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the US did right: the CDC has great world-wide infectious disease monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the US did poorly: the US had spotty local infectious disease monitoring. And lack of data&#8211;ignorance&#8211;was used as an excuse for inaction. With post-COVID wastewater monitoring, the US is doing better, let&#8217;s keep the funding high for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biggest mistake: the federal government responded slowly and ineffectively in the first two months. Faster response that seems like an over-reaction at the time is the best response. If the response is effective, and a disease is slowed or stopped, it should always feel like an over-reaction. Hoof-and-mouth disease is the model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keying off Kevin Drum&#8217;s The lessons of COVID, which is a good start but too limited in imagination. What the US did right: the CDC has great world-wide infectious disease monitoring. What the US did poorly: the US had spotty local infectious disease monitoring. And lack of data&#8211;ignorance&#8211;was used as an excuse for inaction. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-general","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}