Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/what-went-wrong-texas/618104/

 

Here are three explanations. I won’t give away the ending, but they are many of the same issues that hampered the United States in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Too many crucial systems in this country are run on an ad hoc basis. A lack of planning, a reliance on just-in-time logistics, and a self-defeating trust in the profit motive are withering the American economy and way of life.