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Thread about the GOBI. There is amazing and hopeful agreement amongst experts across fields — medicine, science, public health, Econ, homeland security — of what we must do today and the new normal, from this tidal wave to a more targeted management of the virus until vaccine.1/
That agreement is getting distracted by what the military call a GOBI. General Officer, Bright Idea: the big man on campus, with no idea what’s going on nor selflessness to ask those who do — to come in and say “we just need to think outside the box.” 2/
(An aside: if we ever meet, I hate the phrase from the bottom of my heart. I digress) 3/
The GOBI is also under the false belief that a homeland response doesn’t adapt in real time. There isn’t just one response, at one time. There are multiple responses going on now simultaneously. It’s all messy and crazy, but it can still be intentional. 4/
This isnt to say mistakes aren’t occurring. Cuomo admitted some. So we pivot, in real time. But the GOBIs steer us away from shore. The plan today and the way forward, understood to be solid by experts across fields and validated by other countries, is sound. Just execute. 5/5
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