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I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.
As with most of modern federal policy, the genesis of the "lackdowns" were a George W. Bush brainfart:
For all the problems with Lewis’s book, and there are plenty, he gets this whole backstory right. Bush came to his bioterrorism people and demanded some huge plan to deal with some imagined calamity. When Bush saw the conventional plan — make a threat assessment, distribute therapeutics, work toward a vaccine — he was furious.
How Fanatics Took Over The World | ZeroHedge
Idiots following the "plan" of an idiot...
For all the problems with Lewis’s book, and there are plenty, he gets this whole backstory right. Bush came to his bioterrorism people and demanded some huge plan to deal with some imagined calamity. When Bush saw the conventional plan — make a threat assessment, distribute therapeutics, work toward a vaccine — he was furious.
Hey, if the president wants a plan, he’ll get a plan.“This is bulls**t,” the president yelled.
“We need a whole-of-society plan. What are you going to do about foreign borders? And travel? And commerce?”
This was October 2005, the birth of the lockdown idea.“We want to use all instruments of national power to confront this threat,” Venkayya reports having told colleagues.
“We were going to invent pandemic planning.”
How Fanatics Took Over The World | ZeroHedge
Idiots following the "plan" of an idiot...