Tricia Wachtendorf is a disaster researcher who wrote this opinion piece,
Don’t mock people for buying extra toilet paper — they’re doing the best they can with inconsistent and sometimes wrong advice.
It the piece, she writes about the inconsistencies in messaging that we have experienced and how that leads to unclear messaging. In reality, she highlights, what Americans should focus on is the tremendous failure of our systems in addressing an unfolding crisis.
Wash your hands, use hand sanitizer, if you you can find it!
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
