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
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. It’s just the way this stuff goes.
There have been regular pandemic wargames since the late 1990s.
Crimson Contagion was a training exercise in deployment and use of various things, including but not limited to PPE, that would be needed in a pandemic scenario. It was not a predictive wargame like Dark Winter, Atlantic Storm, or what they are now calling Event 201.
OMG!