Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming

[soryang]

Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming
The Nation
by By Ken Klippenstein YESTERDAY 3:09 PM

Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was “unforeseen” and “came out of nowhere,” the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds, according to a 2017 Pentagon plan obtained by The Nation.

“The most likely and significant threat is a novel respiratory disease, particularly a novel influenza disease,” the military plan states. Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the novel (meaning new to humans) coronavirus. The document specifically references coronavirus on several occasions, in one instant saying, “Coronavirus infections [are] common around the world.”

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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-military-shortage-pandemic/

[Turbineguy]

1. They're supposed to. It's their job.

Wing Attack Plan R was the 18th plan.

[The Magistrate]

2. Headline Outstrips The Content, Sir

Military planners considered a pandemic respiratory disease a possibility, and gauged what it might do and how it could best be met. It was noted that, along with the possibility of some more virulent strain of influenza, something in the corona virus family was a possible candidate for a pandemic (there having been one or two outbreaks involving that class of virus).

This is a far cry from claiming the military 'knew the corona virus was coming'.

[nilram]

3. And yet we were caught flat-footed.

With bone spurs, no less.

[pansypoo53219]

4. fresh air interview w/ max brooks last week. we are so unprepared.

i also read the coming plague years ago. he mentioned this.
the orange attention whore is a moron.