[Fury]

“Why Weren’t We Ready for the Coronavirus?”

- see https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus?

[LouieFisk]

“Why Weren’t We Ready for the Coronavirus?”
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It’s interesting that Bush 2 was really concerned about a pandemic and put into place mechanisms to help deal with it in about 2005-2006. The old website for it is still up.

I believe he was moved to act from reading a book (fiction). Anyway, it was a big deal to him then.