Oftentimes the most obvious thing in the world isn’t, which is why ingrained policies or ideas should be revisited once in a while, and not only for the appearance of busyness. But it hard for people to change. I have been in so many situations where I warn people of danger and they think I am nuts and shun or laugh at me. In the end, we all lose.
Covid is another example of tragedy. Our government threw out our PPE and discontinued medical preparedness programs and slashed health care and research funding ad nauseam. Then the virus hit and we didn’t care for the first several months.