“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” That’s what President Donald Trump said about the COVID-19 outbreak on Feb. 10, 2020, about a month before it forced our country and the world into a lengthy lockdown. Why do I recall that today? Because when I think back on the biggest disaster stories I have covered — including 9/11 and COVID-19 — I am struck that they have one big thing in common: a failure of imagination. Sure, government experts prepared for these events in theory, but in practice how…
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