Early in the pandemic, Rod Schoonover, who served more than a decade on the Nationl Security Council, described on my Sustain What webcast how predicting a threat is just the first step toward unleashing an appropriate government response:

“In my world in the intelligence community, I was often very proud to be in one of the only parts of the government that either had the platform or the freedom to clearly state some of the risks. In the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment, it lays out language that’s very, very, eerily prescient of this moment. But it also landed on, I think, page 21. So, yes, it’s a risk, but we clearly don’t have it calibrated quite right.”

That "page 21 effect" exists when competing interests or political expedience cloud decisionmaking. Watch the full episode here:

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