The U.S. spends 760 billion military dollars a year to make sure we could fight an enemy, but this year an enemy came and we didn’t fight it at all.

Oct 16, 2020 · 11:30 AM UTC

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Just as wars are fought by coordinating a huge array of military and organizational skills, a war against Covid could have been fought by coordinating a huge array of scientific, medical, governmental and organizational skills.
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That coordination did not occur. As a result, medical personnel and first responders were left to make heroic efforts far more burdensome than they should have had to - sometimes even at the sacrifice of their own lives - because of a lack of that federal response.
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Time for a peace dividend 😉
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I think more war mentality is the last thing we need. Do you know of @DrZachBush? I’m almost certain you’d like him. Suggest looking up his (science-based) take re viruses. Also this is good: allisonclarkintuitive.com/bl…
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Not true.
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GIF
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That’s not true at all
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I think the toll would be a tad higher if we hadn't fought it at all.
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If they had just started making that little virus 🦠 in the pictures have brown skin the right would have given Trillions to defeat it.
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I'm guessing that you've probably read Smedley Butler's War is a Racket.
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With respect, you of all people understand the shortcomings of the war metaphor paradigm of understanding pathogens.
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