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soryang

(3,299 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 06:53 PM Apr 2020

Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming

Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming
The Nation
by By Ken Klippenstein YESTERDAY 3:09 PM


Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was “unforeseen” and “came out of nowhere,” the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds, according to a 2017 Pentagon plan obtained by The Nation.

“The most likely and significant threat is a novel respiratory disease, particularly a novel influenza disease,” the military plan states. Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the novel (meaning new to humans) coronavirus. The document specifically references coronavirus on several occasions, in one instant saying, “Coronavirus infections [are] common around the world.”


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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-military-shortage-pandemic/

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Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming (Original Post) soryang Apr 2020 OP
They're supposed to. It's their job. Turbineguy Apr 2020 #1
Headline Outstrips The Content, Sir The Magistrate Apr 2020 #2
And yet we were caught flat-footed. nilram Apr 2020 #3
fresh air interview w/ max brooks last week. we are so unprepared. pansypoo53219 Apr 2020 #4

The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
2. Headline Outstrips The Content, Sir
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 07:06 PM
Apr 2020

Military planners considered a pandemic respiratory disease a possibility, and gauged what it might do and how it could best be met. It was noted that, along with the possibility of some more virulent strain of influenza, something in the corona virus family was a possible candidate for a pandemic (there having been one or two outbreaks involving that class of virus).

This is a far cry from claiming the military 'knew the corona virus was coming'.

pansypoo53219

(20,908 posts)
4. fresh air interview w/ max brooks last week. we are so unprepared.
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 08:19 PM
Apr 2020

i also read the coming plague years ago. he mentioned this.
the orange attention whore is a moron.

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