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I have an interest in what people say. It gives me pause sometimes when some stranger is quoted something they had said that seems to ring true. How about putting down something somebody else supposedly said that seems to ring true with you...

"We’re all going to die.
All of us,
what a circus!
That alone should make us
Love each other but, it doesn’t.
We are terrorized
and flattened by trivialities,
we are eaten up
by nothing."
-Charles Bukoski
 
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"The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan."
― Adolf Hitler
 
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Donald Trump just said the quiet part out loud. While phoning into Fox & Friends on March 30 to discuss the federal stimulus bill passed by Congress, he lamented provisions that Democrats had tried adding to the package that would have made voting easier.
"The things they had in there were crazy," said Trump. "They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
 
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"I don't believe the president has ever belittled the threat of the coronavirus,"( * except all the times he did) Pence said, adding: "He expressed gratitude and confidence in health care workers in this country ( *Trump accuses the health workers of hoarding/stealing masks), and the American people can be assure (* The American people should be terrified) -Pence

This coming from a guy who believes in Noah's ark......

Campaign finance records from a 1990 run for Congress show that Pence, then 31, had used political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.( **)

* added comments by me.
** We have a real winner here.
 
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  • Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was ComingThe Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds in 2017-but the Trump administration did nothing.By Ken KlippensteinTwitterTODAY 3:09 PM

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    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."


    The plan represents an update to an earlier Department of Defense pandemic influenza response plan, noting that it "incorporates insights from several recent outbreaks including…2012 Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus."








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    Titled "USNORTHCOM Branch Plan 3560: Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease Response," the draft plan is marked for official use only and dated January 6, 2017. The plan was provided to The Nation by a Pentagon official who requested anonymity to avoid professional reprisal.
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    Denis Kaufman, who served as head of the Infectious Diseases and Countermeasures Division at the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2014 to 2017, stressed that US intelligence had been well-aware of the dangers of coronaviruses for years. (Kaufman retired from his decades-long career in the military in December of 2017.)
    "The Intelligence Community has warned about the threat from highly pathogenic influenza viruses for two decades at least. They have warned about coronaviruses for at least five years," Kaufman explained in an interview.
    "There have been recent pronouncements that the coronavirus pandemic represents an intelligence failure…. it's letting people who ignored intelligence warnings off the hook."
    In addition to anticipating the coronavirus pandemic, the military plan predicted with uncanny accuracy many of the medical supply shortages that it now appears will soon cause untold deaths.
    The plan states: "Competition for, and scarcity of resources will include…non-pharmaceutical MCM [Medical Countermeasures] (e.g., ventilators, devices, personal protective equipment such as face masks and gloves), medical equipment, and logistical support. This will have a significant impact on the availability of the global workforce."


    The 103-page response plan provides an overview of what might cause a pandemic, likely complications, and how the military might respond. The plan outlines conditions under which an infectious disease can become a pandemic, several of which were at play with Covid-19: crowded workplaces, proximity to international airports, unsanitary living conditions. It also contains references to classified annexes that go into further detail. (The Nation is not in possession of these annexes.)
    Last week, Trump lashed out at General Motors and Ford on Twitter, demanding that they manufacture ventilators, a life-and-death appliance for many people with acute Covid-19 symptoms.
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    General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!! @GeneralMotors @Ford


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    The plan's warning about face masks and ventilators was prescient: The US Strategic National Stockpile of medical equipment including respirators, gloves, face masks, and gowns is reportedly nearly depleted.

    The military plan also correctly anticipates "insufficient hospital beds." Indeed, hospitals are in critically short supply in Italy and rapidly filling up across New York.


    "Even the most industrialized countries will have insufficient hospital beds, specialized equipment such as mechanical ventilators, and pharmaceuticals readily available to adequately treat their populations during clinically severe pandemic," the report goes on.
    Another prediction in the report anticipates worldwide competition for, and scarcity of, Covid-19 vaccines. Trump has already reportedly offered German scientists large sums of money for exclusive rights to a vaccine, and efforts to develop drugs are underway in several countries.
    The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    You can read the Pentagon's full draft pandemic plan below.






    Ken KlippensteinTWITTERKen Klippenstein is The Nation's DC Correspondent. He can be reached at (202)510-1268.


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