From: rokimoto557@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/23/2025 8:22 AM, Martin Harran wrote:   
   > The top medical experts in the world or the guy who thought injecting   
   > bleach into people's lungs might cure them from Covid.   
   >   
   > God help America and its pregnant women.   
   >   
      
   https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115435/   
      
   Abstract   
   This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a   
   timely and effective response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, despite ample   
   warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory   
   perspectives—psychological, bureau‐organizational, and   
   agenda‐political—developed from the strategic surprise, public   
   administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to   
   shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the underestimation of   
   the coronavirus threat by the Trump Administration and the slow and   
   mismanaged federal response. The analysis highlights the extent to which   
   the factors identified by previous studies of policy surprise and   
   failure in other security domains are relevant for health security. The   
   paper concludes by addressing the crucial role of executive leadership   
   as an underlying factor in all three perspectives and discussing why the   
   US president is ultimately responsible for ensuring a healthy policy   
   process to guard against the pathologies implicated in the federal   
   government's sub‐optimal response to the COVID‐19 crisis.   
      
   It seems tragically lame that Trump is worried about Tylenol.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
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