Question 1.) In the lecture Coronavirus in Bogota, what does the professor say about Bogota?
Question 2.) What is mentioned about Latin America, protests, and their own security concerns? How was this a bad time for Latin America?
Question 3.) What does the professor say about national security? Are world diseases like the Covid national security problems?
Question 4.) More relevant to this week on intelligence, what does the professor stress about US intelligence reports? Were the reports correct (more your opinion)?
Question 5.) Do you think the US government might have "downplayed" the threat?
Question 6.) At the end of the lecture, the professor raises the idea of solutions. What national security policy could we develop to address pandemics?
Question 7.) Considering the strength of the presidency, did former President Trump do a good job at addressing the problem? What about current President Biden?
Question 8.) At the beginning of the semester, we spoke about how national security evolves. Should more unconventional thinking and subjects (pandemics, mass shootings, among other topics you want to discuss) be incorporated into national security policy? Why or why not? What role could intelligence agencies have?