Drinking with the local human resources bureau director and discussing the pandemic:

"Do you know how many supply trucks a town coordinating 300,000 people needs during a pandemic?

It's not dozens of 2-ton trucks, but hundreds of them—one truck per minute. Now imagine scaling that up to 3 million people and how many supply trucks would be needed.

I used to think it was all amateur hour, but now I really don't dare think that way anymore."