> If you can't trust what your officials are telling you, you can't organize and maintain a quarantine, an effort that requires detailed coordination to keep the quarantined area well-supplied enough to avoid most escape attempts.
That's part of what contributed to various failures explored (I do not know how accurately) by the HBO Chernobyl series. Punish truth and reward lies, and you're bound to end up with fragile systems that can't be efficiently fixed or otherwise addressed when they fall apart, in part because information can't be trusted.
[EDIT] notably it also explores the benefits of authoritarianism: when The System finally decides people who can fix the problem should have what they need to fix it, by god, they'll get it.
That's part of what contributed to various failures explored (I do not know how accurately) by the HBO Chernobyl series. Punish truth and reward lies, and you're bound to end up with fragile systems that can't be efficiently fixed or otherwise addressed when they fall apart, in part because information can't be trusted.
[EDIT] notably it also explores the benefits of authoritarianism: when The System finally decides people who can fix the problem should have what they need to fix it, by god, they'll get it.