SITUATION EXPLAINED: Roon warns of a total AI ban. COVID and climate show how politics makes things go wrong. • The first is COVID. A real problem ignored for months while cases ramped exponentially, then a sudden extreme overcorrection • Some of it worked, like Operation Warp Speed. Much of it didn't: lockdowns, a quarter of US GDP spent preventing an implosion the lockdowns caused, two years of lost schooling, people arrested for surfing alone • All of it imposed by sincere, well-meaning…