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The next pandemic could be brewing. Is Trump's team ready to fail us again?

This starts out with a quote from Vanity Fair from an article by Catherine Eben in March of quoting Jared Kushner's team in March of 2020.

The political flow folks believe that because COVID was going to be relegated to

Democratic states that they could blame those governors, and that would be an official,

effective political strategy, end quote.

Arguably, the most important aspect of political leadership is the ability to deal with a crisis.

The massive incompetence and actual malice of the

Trump administration in 2020 led, for example, to the unnecessary deaths of an estimated half

million Americans. And now we may well be facing a repeat that could be even worse.

The flu pandemic of 1918 through 1920 was the result of a bird flu, H1N1, that mixed,

presumably in a pig with a human-adapted flu virus and then killed over 50 million people worldwide and almost 700,000 here in America,

when our population was only 100 million people. It's 334 million today. So far, every person in America who's become infected with this

generation's bird flu, the H5N1, has gotten it from an animal, mostly birds, particularly chickens.

It's so widespread in the U.S. chicken population, in fact, that is largely responsible for the high price of eggs leading

up to the election and today, so much for the GOP media inflation talking point. In Canada,

the Science Journal of Nature published a rather alarming story last week,

writing, quote, in a children's hospital in Vancouver, Canada, a teenager is in critical condition

after being infected with an avian influenza virus that has researchers on high alert.

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