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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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