時事。。

推特上看到這篇文章

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air

記得3月的時候，和CB有交談，他一直說檢測跟不上，是個大問題。

文章提到：

Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.

略去一段。。。。

On April 27, Trump stepped to a podium in the Rose Garden, flanked by members of his coronavirus task force and leaders of America’s big commercial testing laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, and finally announced a testing plan: It bore almost no resemblance to the one that had been forged in late March, and shifted the problem of diagnostic testing almost entirely to individual states.

Under the plan released that day, the federal government would act as a facilitator to help increase needed supplies and rapidly approve new versions of diagnostic-testing kits. But the bulk of the effort to operate testing sites and find available labs fell to the states.

看到這裏，想起那本關於二戰時期的書，The Washington War：FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II. 

憑這篇文章就做對比，不公平。

但是經曆中的領導無力，也太明顯了。我一直不懂，為什麽在疫情開始之時，沒有抓住機會。。這篇文章揭示的是，不是沒有嚐試抓住機會控製疫情，還是能力不夠，判斷力不足。是否是政治驅動再說了。

有沒有Leadership在大難中最容易顯現。想起Doris Goodwin 的書：Leadership： In Turbulent Times，試圖通過曆史上四位總統Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson 成長背景，政治生涯的挫折起伏，和最終在麵對曆史性的挑戰時如何應對，來展現領導力的形成和發揮。