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US Should Have Attacked COVID like a Foreign Invasion, Experts Say. Have We Learned Any Lessons?
MSN ^ | 4/26 | Karen Weintraub

Posted on 04/28/2023 2:25:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Despite partisan divides, pretty much everyone agrees that America's leaders made mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, a group of more than 30 heavy-hitting experts from the worlds of policy, public health, science, biodefense and patient advocacy has written a book reviewing some of those errors and making suggestions for avoiding similar missteps in the future.

The book "Lessons from the COVID War," published Tuesday, is deliberate in its use of military metaphors. COVID-19 should have been attacked like a foreign invasion, but too often the nation's leaders were absent from the battlefield, they argue.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; donate2donaldtrump; donate2freerepublic; donatetrump; invasion; tyranny
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1 posted on 04/28/2023 2:25:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sure, and China should’ve been front and center in that.


2 posted on 04/28/2023 2:26:27 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Go Woke, Go Broke. Every Time Trump Says Something, I'm Closer to Anyone But Trump.)
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So, the “leadership” of today is performing the same with respect to the illegal alien invasion. How do we punish them when it finally becomes obvious to even idiots (e.g. the left)?


3 posted on 04/28/2023 2:27:15 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: nickcarraway

It was the flu. 99.98% survivable. No extraordinary action was required.


4 posted on 04/28/2023 2:27:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: nickcarraway

Good grief. Didn’t out of control government do enough damage during the shamdemic?


5 posted on 04/28/2023 2:28:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Have We Learned Any Lessons?

We sure have. Ignore experts.
6 posted on 04/28/2023 2:29:18 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: nickcarraway

Everything’s easily solved, with 20/20 hindsight.

I could solve most of America’s problems now, with 20/20 hindsight, and I would do it by making sure that people back in 2020 don’t vote for Biden, or by making sure that the democrats didn’t cheat in that election.


7 posted on 04/28/2023 2:30:28 PM PDT by adorno
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Americans were primed to stick their heads between their own asses and turtle-up when the COVID charade was foisted on the planet.


8 posted on 04/28/2023 2:30:32 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Have we learned any lessons?

We’ve learned that our political master class absolutely adores fascism. They’ve made it our form of government.


9 posted on 04/28/2023 2:32:33 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: nickcarraway

No. Any more questions?


10 posted on 04/28/2023 2:32:42 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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“COVID-19 should have been attacked like a foreign invasion”
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No it should have been investigated for the criminal scam it was.


11 posted on 04/28/2023 2:34:12 PM PDT by jimwatx
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Try to think of a hoax, any hoax, that America hasn’t fallen for…we still believe Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.


12 posted on 04/28/2023 2:35:31 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: nickcarraway

What a WEAK article. I expected to learn something concrete. All I learned is we went into the pandemic with 19th century systems in place and that’s still where we are.

He writes that Israel and Europe had half the school lock-downs we had without mentioning teacher’s unions fighting re-opening tooth and nail.

If these are best examples they can extract from the book, it’s not very useful.


13 posted on 04/28/2023 2:36:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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The best course of action should have been to allow it to run its course so the vast majority of the population would have natural immunity. That’s called herd immunity and there would not have been as many mutations or maybe no mutations that lengthen its impact.


14 posted on 04/28/2023 2:38:16 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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Actually, the war against Covid was a lot like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars - our government lied to force us into it. Luckily, Trump was POTUS, so it didn’t last 20 years.


15 posted on 04/28/2023 2:39:48 PM PDT by enumerated ( )
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Then we should have attacked the entire DNC leadership........Covid was and is a LIE!!!


16 posted on 04/28/2023 2:42:38 PM PDT by afchief
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To: nickcarraway

Yes… big pharma matters more than your freedom.


17 posted on 04/28/2023 2:43:21 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: nickcarraway

They were not mistakes. They were intentional.


18 posted on 04/28/2023 2:43:33 PM PDT by Revel
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To: ConservativeInPA
The best course of action should have been to allow it to run its course so the vast majority of the population would have natural immunity. That’s called herd immunity

The misleaders (especially the ecclesial hierarchs) decried that as "cruel" and "reckless" and placed their every hope in the golden syringe that Fauxichadnezzar had set up.

19 posted on 04/28/2023 2:44:00 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"No extraordinary action was required."

Really?

So in you opinion going after Covid with Abrams M1 tanks would

have been even worse overkill than locking down the country?

Well - perhaps you are correct.

/S

20 posted on 04/28/2023 2:47:41 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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