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Three Waves of the 1918-20 Flu: UK
The 20181918-20 pandemic waxed and waned. This suggests there is not necessarily a quick return to “normalcy”.
Who Knew What, When?
“Red Dawn” emails documenting how everybody who was knowledgeable about pandemic threats knew by 1/28, even as Trump kept on comparing the novel coronavirus to the flu up to March 9th – example:
Email from Dr. James Lawler, professor, and doctor who served in the WH under Pres. G.W. Bush, & adviser to Pres. Barack Obama. More emails, see here, article here.
I still wait to find out when the President’s Daily Brief on the coronavirus threat was circulated.
And Here It Comes: There’s an early January PDB on the Novel Coronavirus
From ABC News today:
“Analysts concluded [a novel coronavirus pandemic] could be a cataclysmic event,” one of the sources said of the NCMI’s report. “It was then briefed multiple times to” the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the White House.
From that warning in November, the sources described repeated briefings through December for policy-makers and decision-makers across the federal government as well as the National Security Council at the White House. All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said. For something to have appeared in the PDB, it would have had to go through weeks of vetting and analysis…
We need the PDB declassified and released, to understand the full magnitude of the public policy disaster this administration has visited upon America, just like this PDB of August 6, 2001 “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” was released.
For These Times
If you despair of the administration bringing us safely through this test, then let this provide some hope, click here.
Elgar’s Nimrod Variation IX, from the Enigma Variations – musicians of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Parallels
In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, we wonder why we did not prepare adequately and efficiently. Trump has blamed China, Obama, the media, the governors, General Motors and the hospitals.
I suspect there are historical parallels, and someday we will see the documentation. Like below:
The Economy in a Time of Covid-19
Just finished a conversation on Wisconsin Public Radio “Central Time”. Here are some papers that informed my talk.
Cases, Fatalities, Cross Country over Time
EconoFact on the Covid-19 Pandemic
EconoFact has been providing insights into the current health/economic crisis. Here is a compendium: