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I think this particular story is about the curious talents of a society, and how those talents are wasted if not led.
Steve Hosea burned into my mind that the most important part of the medical history isn’t the medical history. It’s the social history.”
The root of the CDC’s behavior was simple: fear. They didn’t want to take any action for which they might later be blamed.
“When you go into the details of the cases, you see it’s not bad people,” he said. “It’s bad systems. When the systems depend on human vigilance, they will fail.”
The gist of it was that people don’t learn what is imposed upon them but rather what they freely seek, out of desire or need. For people to learn, they need to want to learn.
There was, Carter thought, a downside to experience. “Experience is making the same mistake over and over again, only with greater confidence,” he said. The line wasn’t his, but he liked it.
