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To: longnshort who wrote (1217168)	4/5/2020 2:38:32 PM
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HOSPICE DEATH ATTRIBUTED TO CHINA VIRUS. SO THAT'S HOW THEY ARE KEEPING COUNT? This Is Fraud: Per CDC Regulations Death of Omaha Man in His 80s on Hospice Care with Several Underlying Conditions is Determined COVID-19 Infection April 5, 2020, 8:17 am by Jim Hoft

To: longnshort who wrote (1217168)	4/5/2020 2:39:18 PM
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Child Rapist Freed From Massachusetts Jail to Protect Him From Coronavirus, Lawyer Slammed For Celebrating on Twitter April 5, 2020, 7:42 am by Cassandra Fairbanks

To: longnshort who wrote (1217168)	4/5/2020 5:20:21 PM
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True, both President Bush's were a decent men.

To: longnshort who wrote (1217168)	4/5/2020 5:23:58 PM
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Fauci Fun Facts: Dr. Fauci’s AIDS Predictions Were Also WAY OFF THE MARK April 5, 2020, 4:10 pm by Jim Hoft Dr. Fauci claimed that AIDS might be transmissible by “routine close contact.” (May 5, 1983, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association). (Michael Fumento, The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, p. 237). Dr. Fauci claimed that ten percent of the HIV/AIDS infected would be heterosexual—more than two and half times the rate – four percent – it actually was. ** On February 15, 1987, then conservative columnist George Will said to Dr. Fauci that HIV/AIDS was principally a heterosexual affliction and that it was not exploding and Fauci quickly replied, “That’s not correct. The percentage of individuals who have gotten AIDS by heterosexual transmission is about four percent now. It is projected that that number will be up in 1991 to about 10 percent.”

To: longnshort who wrote (1217168)	4/5/2020 5:29:45 PM
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W read a book on the 1918 flu while President and acted to prepare the nation for a flu outbreak: No one can imagine Trump even reading a book. ?@JamesKosur George W. Bush in 2005 predicted the need for America to prepare for a pandemic. President Obama then dedicated a team to prepare for a pandemic. Donald Trump closed down Obama’s pandemic team in 2018. And... now here we are. t.co -------------------------- ...... In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advanced copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic. He couldn't put it down. When he returned to Washington, he called his top homeland security adviser into the Oval Office and gave her the galley of historian John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza," which told the chilling tale of the mysterious plague that "would kill more people than the outbreak of any other disease in human history." "You've got to read this," Fran Townsend remembers the president telling her. "He said, 'Look, this happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy.'" ............. "My reaction was -- I'm buried. I'm dealing with counterterrorism. Hurricane season. Wildfires. I'm like, 'What?'" Townsend said. "He said to me, 'It may not happen on our watch, but the nation needs the plan.'" Over the ensuing months, cabinet officials got behind the idea. Most of them had governed through the Sept. 11 terror attacks, so events considered unlikely but highly-impactful had a certain resonance. "There was a realization that it's no longer fantastical to raise scenarios about planes falling from the sky, or anthrax arriving in the mail," said Tom Bossert, who worked in the Bush White House and went on to serve as a homeland security adviser in the Trump administration. "It was not a novel. It was the world we were living." According to Bossert, who is now an ABC News contributor, Bush did not just insist on preparation for a pandemic. He was obsessed with it. "He was completely taken by the reality that that was going to happen," Bossert said. ............... In a November 2005 speech at the National Institutes of Health, Bush laid out proposals in granular detail -- describing with stunning prescience how a pandemic in the United States would unfold. Among those in the audience was Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leader of the current crisis response, who was then and still is now the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "A pandemic is a lot like a forest fire," Bush said at the time. "If caught early it might be extinguished with limited damage. If allowed to smolder, undetected, it can grow to an inferno that can spread quickly beyond our ability to control it." "To respond to a pandemic, we need medical personnel and adequate supplies of equipment," Bush said. "In a pandemic, everything from syringes to hospital beds, respirators masks and protective equipment would be in short supply." Bush told the gathered scientists that they would need to develop a vaccine in record time. "If a pandemic strikes, our country must have a surge capacity in place that will allow us to bring a new vaccine on line quickly and manufacture enough to immunize every American against the pandemic strain," he said. .......... abcnews.go.com