Nobody has a perfect playbook for fixing the coronavirus. That's one of the reasons Insider is fixating so closely on the differences in various countries' approaches.
This pandemic is a horrible, involuntary, international experiment which we are all trying to figure out at once. The costs of failure are enormous.
However, in recent days it has become clearer what does not work: flashy, media-friendly ideas which sound drastic but achieve little.
Some examples:
The reality which is instead emerging is that the solutions to mastering the
Here is what we know is effective:
This lesson is not unique to the coronavirus. But our brains appear hard-wired to resist this truth, which has rarely been so important to see.
Unfortunately, at least in the UK and US, the current heads of government are especially drawn to mega-project solutions (Boris Johnson and his bridges, Trump's infamous Mexico border wall).
The sooner they resist such thinking and focus instead on the dreary fundamentals, the better.
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