Covid-19: Facing the Uncertainties

A reflection on uncertainties from a post of ours first published on 5 May 2020

The Great German strategist Helmuth Von Moltke encapsulated uncertainty as follows:

“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force”. 

In the arena of respiratory infectious agents, Moltke’s ‘tactical genius’ could aid our current thinking.

Moltke thought it was only possible to plan the beginning of a…