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malaise

(269,054 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:13 PM Mar 2020

Event 201 - your comments please

Selected moments from the Event 201 pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated the pandemic preparedness efforts needed to diminish the large-scale economic and societal consequences of a severe pandemic.



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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
5. I posted OP on this is a bit ago on the odds of Trump using the virus to take the media...
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:24 PM
Mar 2020

Most thought it unlikely.

Now I have to ask if he intends to start arresting reporters who ask him nasty questions or snatch Hilary Clinton or the Bidens from their homes to stand "trial" for....whatever.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
7. Yep I had the same thought re arrests but I figured that
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:26 PM
Mar 2020

Speaker Pelosi would be high on his list

Don the Con has to be removed from office

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. but, but, but Bill and Melinda hold the patent on COVID 19 (actual comment on YouTube)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:21 PM
Mar 2020

you know conspiracy against Der Trumpenfuhrer.

brewens

(13,596 posts)
3. Is that the same thing Trump's people participated in? I know they were briefed by
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:24 PM
Mar 2020

Obama's team early on in the administration. I also heard about what sounds like this from last year, but who could have thought of something like this happening?

That's why Trump saying they inherited a broken obsolete system. Okay, so if we give them that, they need to show us what measures were taken to fix it after they had been made aware of the problems. If they took it seriously, there would have to be something.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
9. I care way less about the prediction than the table top discussion
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:32 PM
Mar 2020

that took place.
But it is very interesting that this is your first post here. Welcome and enjoy your stay.

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