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A decade ago, a prescient thinktank
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Posted By: Magnante, 3/23/2021 8:17:03 AM

Nearly a year ago, after COVID hit us hard, I spent my endless at-home time online, looking at whatever I could find on pandemics. I found one treatise on possible methods of dealing with a pandemic. One method was presented as a cautionary tale about how not to treat a pandemic – and naturally, it was a template for 2020’s treatment protocols (snip) It then describes a world with national leaders imposing draconian rules and restrictions, from face masks to temperature checks. “Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified

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Reply 1 - Posted by: NorthernDog 3/23/2021 9:04:51 AM (No. 732397)
FTA:Oddly, I think the third world will do best, as they have not had their economies collapsed (any further than some of them already are) because they didn’t lock down. Most 3rd world countries are not drowning in political correctness either. If you have enough money, you can live your life however you want.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bigfatslob 3/23/2021 9:16:12 AM (No. 732409)
The Chinese at the Alaska summit taught us a lesson and solution, Political correctness and diversity is our downfall. Race baiters like BLM and anarchist Antifa are the norm, transgeder with other perversions set the life style, to the left of course.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Gruntmedic 3/23/2021 11:39:27 AM (No. 732593)
I believe Fauci told Trump this may happen. Fauci also gave our money to the Lab that weaponized the China virus.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: privateer 3/23/2021 3:26:12 PM (No. 732852)
Our new Regime has no interest in---or tolerance for---prescient observations or cautionary tales. It will continue to shamble blindly to the brink of the abyss and beyond, all by itself, thank you very much.
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