We don't bother keeping cards hidden in Pandemic because remembering who has what is exhausting.

Things we do to keep it from being too much one person decides the show.

- (except in the case of dispatcher) only you get to touch your own pawn
- you get to decide when/if to use your special cards

So while we talk about what we want to do, we let the player whose turn it is make the final decision, rather than coming to a consensus about all the actions.

I'm enjoying the cooperative game flashpoint a lot; it seems like it should be just like Pandemic, but it's not.