He's learned nothing
Bush's approval rating is somewhere around 38% this days, and the only thing I find surprising is that it's that high. He's gone on a major PR blitz, but has apparently done nothing about substance, as shown by this:
http://www.alternet.org/story/28141/
I'm appalled, but not surprised. Simonson is quoted as saying "We're learning as we go." It reminds me of everyone post-Katrina saying how much they had learned from Katrina. Why did they have to learn *anything* from Katrina, though? There was nothing surprising about what happened, it had all been studied and published and even drilled for (although as I understand it the drill was a miserable failure and they subsequently did nothing about it). A lot of what they need to do if there's a pandemic or a biological attack has already been studies and models have already been proposed to respond. I'm not, by any means, suggesting this is simple, but there's enough work already been done on this that he shouldn't be clueless.
http://www.alternet.org/story/28141/
I'm appalled, but not surprised. Simonson is quoted as saying "We're learning as we go." It reminds me of everyone post-Katrina saying how much they had learned from Katrina. Why did they have to learn *anything* from Katrina, though? There was nothing surprising about what happened, it had all been studied and published and even drilled for (although as I understand it the drill was a miserable failure and they subsequently did nothing about it). A lot of what they need to do if there's a pandemic or a biological attack has already been studies and models have already been proposed to respond. I'm not, by any means, suggesting this is simple, but there's enough work already been done on this that he shouldn't be clueless.