[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] "The coronavirus is like a heat-seeking missile"

Robert Primak bobprimak at yahoo.com
Thu May 21 11:02:02 PDT 2020






PS - US actually did have a sort of rudimentary civil defense system for biowarfare, the pandemic preparedness task force, but it was dismantled a couple of years before it might have been useful. Something about cost, I believe. It would have cost several billion dollars a year to maintain stocks of PPE etc that could be distributed in a pandemic, something our government could not afford. 


The Task Force also was coordinating with WHO on advanced disease intelligence (an Early Warning System), and helped fund a working group in China who were trying to develop strategies to make new vaccines as new pathogens might emerge. And now it has cost this country over six TRILLION dollars (and still counting) not to have the defense and the stockpile in place. Penny wise, pound foolish. That pretty well summarizes our current Administration.
-- Bob Primak
    On Thursday, May 21, 2020, 05:54:42 AM EDT, JOHN M BROWN <mit69 at icloud.com> wrote:  
 
 Yesterday, during the Q&A of Dan Kleppner’s terrific presentation about the pivotal feasibility study, which he led, of a boost-phase missile defense system, I half-jokingly pondered whether “biologic weapons” might now become a major focus of US defense. 
By serendipity, I've just came upon this assertion - "The coronavirus is like a heat-seeking missile” -by Farhad Manjoo in his NY Times OpED from yesterday -https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/coronavirus-worst-case.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200521&instance_id=18626&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=68265797&segment_id=28645&user_id=4a0f90d24f656f9263952e979f4dcfc8 
John Brown
PS - US actually did have a sort of rudimentary civil defense system for biowarfare, the pandemic preparedness task force, but it was dismantled a couple of years before it might have been useful. Something about cost, I believe. It would have cost several billion dollars a year to maintain stocks of PPE etc that could be distributed in a pandemic, something our government could not afford.   ===============================================
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