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Re:Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment... by melling on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:28PM (#27030937)
much of what people remember was actually referring to the Muslim ban that happened at the same time.

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/13120-2

And you are correct, people from both parties played down the virus well into March. Mardi Gras wasn’t canceled at the end of February.

These people simply didn’t know how dangerous the Coronavirus was.

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Re:Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment... by WalterBright on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:31PM (#27030975)
> These people simply didn’t know how dangerous the Coronavirus was.

I'd be forgiving on that as we've had several pandemic scares before that panned out to nothing in the US.

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Re:Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment... by melling on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:39PM (#27031078)
Many public officials did not know the seriousness of the Coronavirus.

Even Republican officials told Americans to go out and dine.

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March 15, 2020

“Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican, on Sunday encouraged healthy people to dine out at restaurants, contradicting public health advisories that strongly encouraged social distancing and discouraged Americans from attending mass gatherings.“

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Re:Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment... by ghaff on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:46PM (#27031146)
By March 7-15, cautious companies etc. were widely shutting things down. A month earlier basically nothing was happening anywhere in the West.
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Re:Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment... by bourgwaletariat on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:44PM (#27031132)
What I remember of it was calling it the "china flu" was racist/xenophobic. Now, however, it's fine to call it the Brazilian Strain or the UK Strain or the South African Strain. None of any of this makes logical sense to me, tbh, beyond tribalism.

That link you posted is an example of the rewriting of history, because those policies were "forged under Obama" which the blaming of Trump for them, conveniently neglects to mention. Same for the cages, war mongering, and divisiveness in our society today.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/anti-muslim-policies-forged-un...

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