April 25, 2020 - Steve Pieczenik
04:24
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| Hi, this is Dr. | |
| Pachenik. | |
| What I want to talk about is the notion of paradox of success. | |
| What do I mean? | |
| For the first time in crisis management, what we're seeing right now is that we have a crisis that doesn't have a definitive ending. | |
| Usually in a terrorist situation, I can cut it off, save the hostages, and the terrorists go to jail. | |
| In this case, the terrorist happens to be a virus, and the virus is quite contagious. | |
| It's not as lethal as it was, but it is highly contagious. | |
| Ending is not here for the first time. | |
| It may reappear again in a few months. | |
| That's not the fault of the President. | |
| That's not the fault of anyone else. | |
| The president is trying to do the best he can by being a leader and spending two to three hours a day talking to the American public and to the world. | |
| For the most part, the paradox of success in a crisis management is I would normally separate the president from the ongoing crisis. | |
| In this case, the president took over, did what he wanted, assigned Mnuchin and Jared Kushner to getting the money that would come in from the private corporations and getting the necessary equipment that was required to battle the coronavirus. | |
| At the same time, one of the new organizations in the government, FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, was absolutely outstanding, having backed up the White House and having initiated a crisis management situation where they could allocate the ventilators, the masks, and all the necessary paraphernalia that was needed in order to fight this coronavirus. | |
| The second major point in the paradox of success is that this virus will come back. | |
| So think of it as another terrorist situation, but it may not be as lethal. | |
| It may be a different group of viruses coming in with a different type of infectiousness, but we do not know exactly what it is. | |
| So we can't give you the definitive date or a definitive type of enemy. | |
| At the same time, we can tell you that the The states and the nation is opening up to business. | |
| I am a proponent that America should always maintain its economic viability. | |
| I have said that repeatedly, and I still believe that. | |
| I think what's important is that we're beginning to see that the states, on a confederation basis, though maintaining some sense of federalism, that is the The power between the central government and the states is still there. | |
| Nevertheless, they're beginning to coalesce among themselves in a Confederate situation where they're helping each other. | |
| South Carolina helping North Carolina, helping Georgia, Florida helping the other states, and vice versa. | |
| That is an important movement. | |
| I wrote about it in State of Emergency years ago when it came to the water allocation, where water came in from Montana, the Innes River, went to the Colorado River, Arizona was distributing the water and selling it to California, if you can believe it. | |
| But it highlighted the crises that were involved when you have a lack of water. | |
| In the same way, this epidemic is highlighting other issues that we need. | |
| We need to improve our CDC. We need to improve our HHS. We need to improve our intelligence and military capacity to address this specific virus. | |
| I do want to congratulate all the physicians, nurses, health workers, truckers, and all the others who are involved in the first line of responding. | |
| And I do want to thank the American public for their patience and understanding. | |
| This will also pass. | |
| Let me just say the following. | |
| And good night. |
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