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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    RaceBannon said:

    I wondered why we were able to avoid the Spanish flu during the Bush administration

    Seems like forever ago that I read the backstory, so I’m probably going to get this wrong. But W read that book plus a paper by a 16 year old, and it freaked him out. Result was increased pandemic prep by CDC and other agencies. This is part I’m less sure about, I think it also gave rise to the legislative template that many states used to setup their emergency powers, including Washington. That did happen but not certain if on same timeline.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,498 Standard Supporter
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I wondered why we were able to avoid the Spanish flu during the Bush administration

    Seems like forever ago that I read the backstory, so I’m probably going to get this wrong. But W read that book plus a paper by a 16 year old, and it freaked him out. Result was increased pandemic prep by CDC and other agencies. This is part I’m less sure about, I think it also gave rise to the legislative template that many states used to setup their emergency powers, including Washington. That did happen but not certain if on same timeline.
    Either W read it or the NWO overlords 'strongly suggested' government ramping up as the solution to the upcoming pandemic 'problem'.

    #obk

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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter
    I’m finally starting to read this...



    I saw the excellent HBO series based on this book when it aired, which I highly recommend also. I appreciate how the author takes EVERYONE.gif to task (even the gay community and medical establishment) on their response to the AIDS epidemic.

    It also showed me (again) how public health issues and science and quickly become political.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425
    @CokeGreaterThanPepsi @ThomasFremont


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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter
    Gladstone said:

    @CokeGreaterThanPepsi @ThomasFremont


    That thrilling excerpt was from the sixth installment of the popular “A Song of Ice and Fire” series:



    Available in bookstores now!!!!!!1
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club


    I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.

    If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:


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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:



    I love books about man vs. nature and building incredible shit against long odds. Great read and a good chunk of it is in the PNW. Plus I'm a complete John Stevens fanboy. To think the guy who conquered the northern passage and got a railroad through where nobody else could followed that up with building the Panama Canal. Civil engineering genius. 'Murica! Back when we built shit that the world envied. Now we sell burgers. FML.

    If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:


    I’ve been meaning to read “The Path Between Seas” for awhile now. I’ll move it up in the queue.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425
    wtf when was freme banned
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    edited August 2020
    Gladstone said:

    wtf when was freme banned

    He, like many others before him, requested to be banned due to The Tug.

    Thunderdome claims another one. Why do people keep going there when they hate it???!!!?!?!?
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:

    Gladstone said:

    wtf when was freme banned

    He, like many others before him, requested to be banned due to The Tug.

    Thunderdome claims another one. Why do people keep going there when they hate it???!!!?!?!?
    Freemie rage blocked me on teh twatters for a “stay home/stay safe” joke last week. It was a hurtful for a minute. Love the freemie.
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