Posted on 03/19/2020 8:27:35 PM PDT by bitt
Exactly. I've been through some corporate exercises and government as a consultant. Desks are setup, phone lines and computers setup, which leads to a realization there needs to be funding for a command center if there wasn't one, then scenarios are played from scripts (generally unknown to people in the exercise). Paper is pushes, data is entered and some problems are uncovered. But in general people are not fully engaged because they have normal jobs to do.
Look up Event 201
Johns Hopkins has been having these medical war game scenarios since before 911... the last one they did was on a possible corona virus outbreak but in the past they have done similar scenarios for smallpox (Dark Winter) influenza and SARS.
here is a list of them
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/
The Dark Winter one was held shortly before 911 was about a smallpox outbreak caused by terrorists. So after 911,when many in the government worried that Saddam would set lose a smallpox attack, they already had plans intact on who to inoculate first and how to set up a clinic etc etc and these were sent to various public health clinics all over the USA.
(I was the doc in our public health clinic tasked to teach the plan, since I had expertise in doing this type of stuff when I was in Africa).
Apparently it was a flawed exercise.
Asian nations have beat the virus. We haven’t.
Yeah. If China had cooperated. The intentionally witheld data, samples, cooperation, paid the WHO TO LIE ....They lied their ass off, not to help, but to tru to make the rest of the world Italy. What do you do to a country that has a pandemic, hides it, lies about it, keeps flights open, witholds samples, researchers, and on paper looks like they were going for maximum spreading to the west.
I honestly dont know the appropriate response to China losing containment on a bioweapon research product and internationally trying to maximize the pain for others. Nukes, conventional military at the edges, banishment from the free world ....
My opinion is to release a worse one closer to their leaders. Nothing ?
He didnt end the directorate. Trump did merge groups that had repetitive functions As he should jave
IMHO this China virus is not the Bad Thing. If anything other than a diversion, it’s our large scale training to get ready for the Bad Thing.
Im hoping from this day forward new laws will be enacted that when something like this is remotely noticed the shut down of travel and business with this country is quick and fool proof
And PLENTY of movies with this topic; too!
You are correct, the man in charge of it has stated as such recently.
Even the advanced Mayans had calendar problems.
The 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, ended on 21 December 2012, but they left no record on how to solve it.
(Which mattereth not; as they wuz all gone by then anyway!)
Correct. Iran has already turned away from the geometric grown line and has almost flattened.
We’ve been hearing that such a ‘big one’ is coming for decades. The question is why weren’t the resources rerouted to prepare for this? Second question of course is why weren’t the production of masks and ventilators and the use of the available quick, mass tests kicked into gear well over a month ago?
We would practice mass casualty events annually.
Still pretty sure the first hour or so would be horrible. We never practice enough to make it perfect.
And...in most real situations, the lead people are knocked out in the first five minutes. Its just the way this stuff goes.
Exactly, no war goes perfectly. The time to reflect is afterwards, not run around and say we are all doomed and going to lose to the Nazi’s.
Can you imagine a school coming out afterward and saying. Well the active shooter event went exactly as planned, we knew we would have some casualities so there is nothing to be learned here, it went perfectly.
Thank you for your service. Good to see you on FR.
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