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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by NicoJuicy on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:35AM (#23455361)
Who says it's lying? Modern Western world has never had a pandemic in the current globally connected world.

Recommendations try to take everything in to account.

It's easy now to say: just wear masks. But then, there was even a global shortage of masks for health professionals.

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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by bkor on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:56AM (#23455477)
The UK did a study a few years ago on the most important threat. The #1 spot (on importance) was a pandemic and would have way more impact than the #2 threat. The report suggested various things, including e.g. masks, etc. The report was ignored.

In US there's been many warnings to subsidize a strategic PPE supply and production. This was ignored. Early on (COVID-19) a US mask producer asked officials to provide money to expand production. This was ignored.

It wasn't just easy to predict, it was predicted various times.

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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by NicoJuicy on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:10PM (#23459720)
A comet will hit the earth is also easy to predict.

But we won't build something now against it because it's a long time ago.

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