Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators
by jacquesm on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:30AM
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The flawed decision making was right at the start, when this thing could have been bottled up, and then after that at just about every junction where decisions were postponed. Now it's too late and everybody and their brother will start telling the ICU personnel how to clean up our messes?
Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators
by mistermann on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:40PM
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It could be, I'm not overly familiar with those details, and therefore hold no opinion. Only when I sense I have a fairly decent understanding of a situation do I form any opinions on it (or more accurately, this is how I try to approach things!). And often even not then, as I have awareness of and profound respect for the ~multidimensional complexity of reality, where many of the variables and associations involved are completely invisible from an individual human perspective.
Regardless, is this somehow related to my comment above?
I find it doubly frustrating because the majority of these are asserted as fact, typically based on flawed reasoning, when what they really are, are estimations/predictions.
If this lack of concern (if not outright disdain) for correctness becomes too prevalent within a society, I worry that it may affect the quality of our decision making.