Greg Hopkins, I applaud you for being a leader, for being the solution that you suggest is needed from public officials. Of course I agree on the statement about the need for honesty, candor, competence and grace from public officials. AND, AND, AND as I read your article I heard a writer who was observing and reporting and exploring in a “calm, rational and trustworthy” manner and spirit. You reported anecdotal first hand observations and coupled your reporting with a reasonable exploration of the wide range of uncertain possibilities of impact and accurate assessment. For me, I see that as role modeling — in other words not just the public officials seeking to be “calm, rational and trustworthy” but all of us to exhibiting those attributes. I read the responses to your article. I am perhaps idealistic but have a hope that we will embrace our various differences into a still bigger unity that incorporates hearing humanity and the whole planet on which we reside. I believe we can face uncertainty, novel disruptions, even the horrifically tragic, heavy burden, harbinger of warning or even possibly exaggerated alarmist reaction (I would love for the last possibility to turn out to be accurate) and regardless chose ongoing “calm, rational and trustworthy” as characteristics demonstrating progress for us as a species — collective humanity demonstrating that our consciousness is (even if halting, awkward, uneven) maturing.