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To: Jane Long; DoughtyOne; grey_whiskers
Here it is - The following thread regards how we should be planning for the possibility that nCoV cannot be contained (Tweets from J. Hopkins Director)

Here is Dr. Inglesby's list of pandemic do’s and don’ts, including the favorite of authority figures -DON’T grab a gun.

Inglesby: If we all end up in our homes with guns, then nothing will work. We won’t be able to get anything to anyone. You basically would have to imagine scenes of complete lawlessness and a complete breakdown of social order.

My hope and my sense of what the science says is that that is not typically how human beings react in emergencies. There obviously is going to be a wide variety of responses, but I think in general there are going to be a lot more good responses than bad. So I’d say that if we get to that point in a pandemic, things have completely broken down and we have all sorts of [other problems] that I don’t think a gun’s going to help with.

265 posted on 01/27/2020 8:42:04 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

Thanks.


271 posted on 01/27/2020 8:44:22 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: DoodleBob

“we have all sorts of [other problems] that I don’t think a gun’s going to help with.”

He’s obviously never been the victim of a violent home invasion...


272 posted on 01/27/2020 8:45:48 PM PST by Black Agnes
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