The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is about to eclipse the death toll from September 11. And there’s no end in sight.
On September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked by 19 members of an al Qaeda terrorist cell.
Two of the planes were crashed into the World Trade Center. One was crashed into the Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth flight communicated with people on the ground, found out the fate of the other three planes, and then stormed the cockpit, resulting in a premature crash just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In total, 2,977 people were killed that day—more than were killed at Pearl Harbor. It was the most deadly attack on American soil, ever…
Epidemic management is not rocket science
President Donald J. Trump is a large part of why we are where we are, because he failed to execute the basic blocking and tackling of epidemic management.
These procedures are not rocket science:
- Restrict and monitor incoming travel from hot spots.
- Stockpile essential medical supplies.
- Prepare for the rapid deployment of testing that can be immediately scaled and processed on-site.
- Aggressively test the population and prosecute contact tracing and quarantines along infection pathways.
That’s it. That’s the playbook. When you execute it competently, you get results like South Korea and Singapore. When you don’t, thousands of people die.
Despite what you may believe, Trump never actually banned travel from China and Europe…
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