Leadership 2.0 In The Time Of C-Virus (Part Two Of A Piece)

I didn’t expect to say this so soon – especially, after my most recent comment of last week. But let’s be far more charitable to the government and its leaders in this present time of pandemic-driven crisis.

- Wijith DeChickera

I didn’t expect to say this so soon – especially, after my most recent comment of last week. But let’s be far more charitable to the government and its leaders in this present time of pandemic-driven crisis. And the calm, tough, cautiously optimistic, manner they’ve handled the emergency in the main.

Sorry to see that some folks may be right to be critical of the state’s SOP where they’re still showing through the cracks. Since no administration on earth in these challenging times is likely to get it right all the time every time, that’s hard on those who are trying – and getting it not that badly wrong (we all could hope). Shall we leave the politicking and personal preferences aside for just one cotton-picking season and praise a president under pressure and support the state’s operational personnel (it is the least a people in crisis could/should do!)?

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Not to gloss over any lapses (there are some – in hindsight, the staggered lockdown with brief windows for stockpiling may have done more harm than the good of temporary relief for a lucky or early few). But to give credit where it is due (there is much of it… from the new key workers holding the line at checkout counters to hospital staff of all ranks or file). And take stock – literally (perhaps not for a while, now that the shut-ins in three districts are locked down indefinitely) and philosophically (we have all the time in the world – well… almost).

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