Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. January 4, 2021—Thinking Outside the Boxe has released the transcripts of the question and answer session from its 2020 Annual Symposium. Participants included correspondents from Clermont, Florida; Orange County, California; Novi, Michigan; and Gastonia, North Carolina.
The Symposium examined the early pandemic response and centralized public-health authority, prolonged business and school closures, remote work and commercial real estate, vaccine development and safety testing, emergency deficit spending, platform amplification of public-health information, retail consolidation, medical supply chains, local-government capacity under simultaneous crises, learning loss from extended remote instruction, central-bank independence, the expansion of emergency powers, mask and lockdown mandates and social trust, the relative political power of urban and non-urban regions, and standing capacity for industrial mobilization.
The transcript is available at www.ThinkingOutsideTheBoxe.com.
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