SoonNursePreviousSoftwareDev
I agree with many comment here. I try to look for successful interventions around the world, before forming opinions about problems/solutions (with coronavirus I have looked at Taiwan's response, along with China, South Korea and Vo, Italy) contrasted to yet unsuccessful ones(so far I judge US and many others as not successful yet). Ultimately hindsight will be the measure. Unfortunately, hindsight is not a process to solve/decide actions in future problems (but reflective/planning is, before the problem arises). Motivations are different for different players, politicians want re-election(decisive action, right or wrong gets votes, better than review/reflection on history/alternatives), business people ($$$ mostly, survival?), or effected people (situational basis/selfish, ~altruistic, treat other how you would like to be treated, treat other how they want to be treated).
There is a large part of the general population (if not all) that do not possess sufficient critical thinking processes or reflective thinking processes to form relatively unbiased/unemotional viewpoints. They continue to form opinions based more on their emotional responses and snap judgments than scientific information (maybe because of their perceived level of stress and relative lack of time/interest in investigating). I also have feeling and 'intuit' hypothesis, but then try to research the facts (sometimes I "forget"/ignore critical contradictory information and need to be reminded of them). People have opinions that seem contradictory to others (climate science for example) holding on to facts supporting their beliefs, but ignoring/discrediting contradictory facts (a natural human response to the emotional feeling of being attacked overcoming rational thought process). The challenges of everyone is to have clear values/motivations (altruistic/selfish scale) and a sufficient measure of critical and reflective thinking processes to carry on a respectful discourse that contributes to advancing each others understanding and progress discourse and problem solving.
That is why I tend to try to look for examples of successful instances of such discourse taking place for various problems, which have more to do with educating/showing people how valuing each other helps promote the growth of success and realize that some places are not yet capable of seeing the benefit of changing their behaviors. The United States is a fine example of where there is not enough of this respect, care and effort put into processes that solve problems very effectively. It may be better to put effort in to education, rather than discourse on a particular current problem, in the US.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
