Lessons That Could Be Learned

What are the lessons to be learned? The easy ones are:

1) Keep the pandemic experts employed.
2) Listen to the experts' advice.
3) Cooperate with international agencies and foreign governments.
4) Be prepared to implement screening at ports of entry.
5) Onshore critical PPE manufacturing or require a sufficiently large rotating stock at distributors that a surge in demand can be handled.
6) Ditto for testing supplies.
7) Make sure states coordinate as necessary.

The hard one is:

8) Don't elect people who don't believe in expertise.

The last lesson will be extremely hard for America to learn because 40-45% of the electorate has complete disdain for expertise, and about 5-10% has no idea what expertise looks like beyond Judge Judy.