Op-Ed: Maybe COVID-19 will remind us why government is not the enemy (via latimesopinion)
After the stock market collapsed in late 1929, many people in the United States lost their jobs. By 1932, one in four Americans was suffering from lack of food.
We desperately need competence and courage in our government. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt trumpeted this message before cheering crowds, and went on to swiftly create a set of government structures based on the idea that government planning and support are necessary to keep us safe, provide opportunities to all, and ensure that no one is left out. It’s too bad that it takes a crisis to remind us what government is good for, but that’s where we are today.
And us? Local governments, at best unsupported and often actively opposed by the federal government, are doing their best to plan for climate change. But they don’t have the resources to pay for protective infrastructure or to build new communities in high, dry, and connected places, where both transit and internet access are high-quality and inexpensive. We are ambling toward an apocalypse with every passing month.
South Korea is a country that plans for and supports basic infrastructure, including for public health. It is no coincidence that when the virus arrived, South Korea was ready with tens of thousands of tests, including drive-through testing sites. The Atlanticon Monday that fewer than 5,000 Americans had been tested. By this same point in their outbreak, South Korea had tested more than 100,000 people, in a country with a population a fifth the size of ours.
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