Re: COVID-19 Demonstrated Our Doom
> Having been in a few emergency situations...
Immediate emergencies - such as rivers bursting banks, fires, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, car crashes - or slow-burn "we are ok now, but in a month's time we are in big trouble"?
I am willing to bet you mean you've been in the former, or you wouldn't bother to mention it - after all, literally *every* person alive is currently in the middle of multiples of the latter - including the non-zero chances of an asteroid strike.
When there is an emergency right now, right in front of you, then, yes, the people on the scene to react well and local leadership is allowed to work.
Now, just look at real-life behaviour for slow-burn and non-localised situations: politicians have time to stick their oars in, everybody and their dog is shouting an opinion, money and resources get wasted...
*After* the asteroid hits, and the fires are all real and visible and *right* here, your local people and local leaders will all pitch in to help put them out.