The case for improved best practices

Over the years, automobiles and smart phones have improved by leaps and bound, thank for continuously improved best practices. I’d love to say the same about home appliances, but their reliability has taken a turn for the worst, as cost and bad quality electronic components have deteriorated their once reasonable performance and reliability.

Our government has also followed the lackluster appliance script of “re-inventing the wheel” when it should have instead, followed an incremental approach to best practices in healthcare and pandemics as they were told to do.

That is, when a new administration comes in, and it religiously destroys things that worked well, and were implemented by a previous administration, for sake of “marking its territory”.

This is why today we have the Covid-19 mess in the United States, simply because Trump is engaged in destroying everything that Obama and previous administrations set up for sake of showing off.

Instead of failing to anticipate the crisis, yet alone respond to it in a satisfactory manner, we have made things worst for all of us. Basically, as the “World’s healthcare leader”, as we like to pad ourselves on the back, we should have done better than Germany, South Korea, Taiwan or even China.

We did not, instead our performance was much worst, by a large margin. We should have instead immediately inquired and asked about these countries “best practices”, but were too proud and too stubborn, particularly with someone like Donald Trump as our president, the man who thinks he knows it all...