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10. The next pandemic will be another that could have been prevented...

Sun Jun 29, 2025, 10:08 PM

Jun 29

that is what I find so terribly painful.

If the grifter had not removed the "boots on the ground" CDC experts and professionals in Wuhan, prior to 2019*, I believe we could have stopped Covid in its tracks. (We have done it so often before, eg: Ebola).

People die when these people are in charge.

*These two articles from Reuters are from March 2020:
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3NE/
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910R/

I stand with you in your concerns.

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If peaceful protests won't work, what do you recommend we do? Ocelot II Jun 29 #1

Good question, I don't have the answer Eliot Rosewater Jun 29 #2

In fact, I don't think elections will work either. Eliot Rosewater Jun 29 #3

You know what else I'm certain of, I'm just going to get ridiculed here Eliot Rosewater Jun 29 #4

I will not ridicule you. yellow dahlia Jun 29 #5

I don't know what to do now, gab13by13 Jun 29 #6

I don't know if you can even have a Covid booster Eliot Rosewater Jun 29 #7

We've had a pandemic and kind of know about them. multigraincracker Jun 29 #8

Sure, or something else will happen also but certainly Eliot Rosewater Jun 29 #9

Exactly gab13by13 Jun 29 #11

And the entire republican house and Senate will do nothing Eliot Rosewater Jun 29 #12

The next pandemic will be another that could have been prevented... yellow dahlia Jun 29 #10