J Robert Smith
- April 10, 2020
- 3 min read
An expert avoids all of the many pitfalls on his or her way to the grand fallacy.”
— Henry Mintzberg Collection of Expert Quotes
“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.”
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
THE TAKE
The experts and epidemiological models have been embarrassingly wrong. COVID-19 isn’t a figment of our imaginations, but it’s not the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic – not by a long shot. We’re in the midst of an historic overreaction to a contagious infection. Tens of millions of working Americans and small businesses are paying the price. Paychecks and jobs, lost, and small businesses hanging by threads.
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