Pandemic Simulations and Scenarios: 20 Reasons Why the U.S. Government Should Have Been Better Prepared for COVID-19

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HATRICK PENRY'S

We’ve all been hearing about the shortage of N95 breather masks and ventilators and also about how the unemployment computers are crashing with the excessive loads of online claims. Considering all the knowledge our government has gained over the years on what to expect in a Pandemic, I found this lack of preparedness to be disturbing if not criminally negligent.

Let’s have a look over years at some of the reasons, warnings and chances the U.S. Government has had to prepare for this catastrophe:

In chronological order:

1) 2001 June 22-23 ‘Dark Winter‘ simulation (John Hopkins and Bloomberg School of Public Health) The Dark Winter exercise, held at Andrews AFB, Washington, DC, June 22-23, 2001, portrayed a fictional scenario depicting a covert smallpox attack on US citizens.

(From the website) About Dark Winter:

On June 22-23, 2001, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Johns Hopkins Center…

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