Made2Measure

This is the 13th in a series of blog posts beginning on February 4, 2020 focused on justice systems’ responses to the coronavirus pandemic -- SARS-CoV-2 is its technical name and Covid-19 is the disease it causes --and the justice systems’ active participation in a whole-of-society-approach (WOSA) to national security and safety threats such as Covid-19. Wall Street Journal’s columnist Peggy Noonan reflected on the question in the title above in her  April 11-12 Declarations column: As a nation we’ve learned that as a corporate entity of 330 million diverse souls we could quickly absorb, adapt and adjust to widespread disruption. I’m not sure we knew that. Crazy cowboy nation cooperated with the authorities. American comported itself as exactly what you thought it was or hoped it was but weren’t sure: compassionate, empathetic, committed, hard-working, creative and, as a friend said, funny as hell. Under great and immediate stress there’s been broad peacefulness and civil...

This is the 12 th     in a series of blog posts beginning on February 4, 2020 focused on justice systems’ responses to the coronavirus pandemic -- SARS-CoV-2 is its technical name and Covid-19 is the disease it causes --and the justice systems’ active participation in a whole-of-society-approach (WOSA) to national security and safety threats such as Covid-19. Updated April 4. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “missing in action” literally as “missing and unable to be confirmed as captured or killed following military action.” The term is used figuratively, as I use it in the title of this post, for “someone or something notably or unexpectedly missing, absent, or inactive.” The titles of two blogs written here over the last two weeks tell the story:   Absence of the U.S. Military in the Fight to Mitigate the Covid-19 Pandemic (March 23)   Other Countries Are Mobilizing Militaries Against the Coronavirus Epidemic: The United States Is Not (March 26) ...