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To: LindyBill who wrote (708805)	3/28/2020 5:56:49 PM
From: D. Long	2 Recommendations Recommended By alanrs skinowski Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

I think most people think these things are going to play out like the movies, and the government is going to swoop in, cordon off the outbreak, and have tons of supplies to miraculously save us all from disaster. Like having tens of thousands of ventilators stashed away for the end of the world. People are mad because reality does not match their fantasies. Some people will learn, others will choose to continue believing their fantasies.

To: LindyBill who wrote (708805)	3/28/2020 10:51:19 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maple MAGA Respond to of 793917

Britain developed a cutting-edge new strategy for dealing with pandemics by building herd immunity. It was actually really novel and exciting and they were anxious to try it out. When the coronavirus came along, the government plugged its spread rate, death rate, etc into the strategy and got the plan ...and then it turned out they’ll need ventilators. I hope that somewhere, along the way they, they may have also recognized that we still don’t know “its spread rate, death rate, etc”. We don’t know what’s the true prevalence of the disease - and of immunity. That’s why Dr Birx had to back away from that model because it didn’t fit the “facts on the ground”.