One thing that occurs to me that is, in my experience, the handful of tough problems I looked into in depth had no simple one dimensional solutions. Simple solutions are appealing of course, one can claim "IF only X had done Y in time this would have been avoided", but I think that rarely is true. Part of this is the lack of reliable facts in many cases of course. Part of it is that if something has a simple solution it is usually implemented, and resolved, before it becomes very "newsworthy".
I think this applies to the viral outbreak, the police situation, racism, climate change, the national debt, the problem with politics, you name it. I doubt there are simple solutions despite what various Facebook memes might lead one to believe.
I was chatting with someone about the Convention of the States as a means to pass Congressional term limits, and I pointed out some of the vagaries and latitudes such a convention could in fact take. It sounds like a nice simple solution, but probably would be nothing like that.
And even then term limits might not solve much of anything either...
