Thread by @TheCptBlackPill, I've managed to become even more cynical and blackpilled tonight after reading [...]

I've managed to become even more cynical and blackpilled tonight after reading this https://www.kansascitymag.com/heres-what-could-have-stopped-the-covid-19-epidemic-according-to-a-kansas-coronavirus-expert/

A coronavirus expert from KU predicted this pandemic—here's what he says will happen next

Scientist in a clean roomIf you’d been a molecular biosciences student at the University of Kansas last semester, you might have known this was coming. In class, the concept of a deadly new coronav...

https://www.kansascitymag.com/heres-what-could-have-stopped-the-covid-19-epidemic-according-to-a-kansas-coronavirus-expert/

And this: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-military-shortage-pandemic/

Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That The Coronavirus Was Coming

The Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks and hospital beds in 2017—but the Trump administration did nothing.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-military-shortage-pandemic/

And this:

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/2012/RAND_OP360.pdf

RAND study determines only a pandemic is an existential threat to the United States and capable of destroying "the American way of life"

And this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-outbreak.amp.html

Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded

Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-outbreak.amp.html

Conclusion: this wasn't a failure of science or imagination. It wasn't a failure of intelligence. It was solely a failure of leadership. Our leaders knew the ONE THING that could truly bring us down was a pandemic. They had other priorities

Yeah, it was certain to happen in the long run, but the calculation of every elected official was that by then it would be someone else's problem

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