COVID Restrictions
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Surely not. And there are surely many who have the opposite viewpoint. It’s a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” proposition for academy leadership.
This is leadership at its most intense: imperfect and incomplete information, myriad options rife with trade-offs, pros and cons to every choice, no easy answer, major consequences for many people. But that’s where real, genuine, principled leadership comes in. If it was easy, you wouldn’t need leaders to lead the way. When this is all said and done, the powers that be will conduct an after-action debrief to understand what worked, what didn’t, what they’d do the same, what they’d do differently. Lessons will be learned and we should all be better for it moving forward.
Meanwhile, as with any crisis with no easy choices, there’ll be people on the sidelines with an opinion, sometimes well informed, other times not. They’ll be opining without the actual responsibility and accountability that academy leadership faces. Many will be opining with the benefit of hindsight. And as they say, hindsight is 20/20.
As for “fairness,” anyone who’s made highly consequential decisions knows that good decisions are often considered unfair, and poor decisions are often considered fair. Such is life.
This is leadership at its most intense: imperfect and incomplete information, myriad options rife with trade-offs, pros and cons to every choice, no easy answer, major consequences for many people. But that’s where real, genuine, principled leadership comes in. If it was easy, you wouldn’t need leaders to lead the way. When this is all said and done, the powers that be will conduct an after-action debrief to understand what worked, what didn’t, what they’d do the same, what they’d do differently. Lessons will be learned and we should all be better for it moving forward.
Meanwhile, as with any crisis with no easy choices, there’ll be people on the sidelines with an opinion, sometimes well informed, other times not. They’ll be opining without the actual responsibility and accountability that academy leadership faces. Many will be opining with the benefit of hindsight. And as they say, hindsight is 20/20.
As for “fairness,” anyone who’s made highly consequential decisions knows that good decisions are often considered unfair, and poor decisions are often considered fair. Such is life.
IronmanDaremo
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Per statistics, the largest group that is currently transmitting the virus around is the 18 - 40 year old crowd. B/C they seem to think they are less susceptible to bad symptoms, or are often asymptomatic. SA cadets are smack dab in that range. But ..... their older parents, or compromised relatives and friends (people with asthma, cancer, diabetes, etc.) are incredibly high risk.
No leader wants to willingly be the one who puts someone's life in jeopardy, unnecessarily. It is better to be cautious than to be dead ..... or be the "cause" of someone dying. Let alone legal ramifications from those that have suffered and can show traceability to where one's infection came from overall.
The whole situation sucks. High school seniors for the last two school classes have been left out of so many things that are considered a large part of the high school experience. Same with college kids. But it is better than being the cause of someone's death and the guilt that goes along with that.
No leader wants to willingly be the one who puts someone's life in jeopardy, unnecessarily. It is better to be cautious than to be dead ..... or be the "cause" of someone dying. Let alone legal ramifications from those that have suffered and can show traceability to where one's infection came from overall.
The whole situation sucks. High school seniors for the last two school classes have been left out of so many things that are considered a large part of the high school experience. Same with college kids. But it is better than being the cause of someone's death and the guilt that goes along with that.
The leadership at the academy can do very little about it. It is coming from the top. You are correct when you say it is doing more harm than good in my opinion. A lot of people feel the way you feel just know that. However people who feel like you do best not speak out. It will do no good. Take it from me I have complained formally up the chain of command all the way to national CAP headquarters at Maxwell AFB. I was shot down. No in person CAP meetings over 10 people was the final order. We are a squadron of 70 cadets. It is heartbreaking what is happening. The kids are suffering more than these politicians in DC understand. Our CAP squadron has been shutdown for over a year! But hang in there you are not alone!