Okay, at this point I’m just baffled. When things are important to do, it is best to get started, even if it will take time to get results.
Could I ask, though, what the point is in delaying? I get that you have this notion that it is bad to play politics with tragedies, but since you are asking me to drill down on why it is good to raise awareness of public safety risks sooner rather than later, I wonder if you could actually explain what we are balancing that against.
Suppose, all other things being equal, by starting to talk about this two days earlier we, years from now, get a useful resolution two days earlier. Suppose our total gains from starting two days earlier is two days times the per-day liklihood of a fire times the damage done by that fire including human lives lost. What is it that we are balancing against that? Distaste?
