This article from the New York Post talks about how Americans with the coronavirus were flown back to the US on a plane full of healthy passengers. As soon as I read the title, I immediately asked myself this question: how can people be so incompetent? Common-sense would tell you that if you are infected with a virus that can spread and has the potential to kill, you isolate the infected individuals from the healthy individuals. But it seems that whoever directed those Americans infected with the coronavirus did not have common-sense.
Hearing stories like this really makes it hard for me to put my complete trust in anyone in times of crises, because there are individuals, like in this example above, that are incompetent and will do things that will only make the situation potentially worse! Now, I’m not saying that ALL people are incompetent. There are people who are competent and know what they are doing. In fact, I would say a majority of people know what they are doing. However, there are a select few of individuals who may not know what they are doing, and it is those individuals that can make dire situations potentially worse, and that is what scares me. I understand that we are only humans and mistakes will happen. I understand that we aren’t perfect and things won’t always go perfectly. However, when you are tasked to coordinate people in a dire time, you have to be very attentive and make sure that you minimize the potential for mistakes, especially big ones, and to me, an incident like the one described above should not have happened.