A crisis reveals hidden things about nations and shatters outdated beliefs about the state of the world. So it is with COVID-19, as America confronts the harsh fact that its response to COVID-19 has been inferior to China’s.
Summary: Last in a series of posts about the swine flu hysteria (links to other chapters appear at the end). This is an apt time to look at another would-be Cassandra, as the World Health Organization has noted “Signs That Swine Flu Has Peaked” (New York Times, 21 November 2009). Other posts about the swine …
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Complex technology, large-scale programs run on tight deadlines, making products with almost no margin for error.  Result:  big potential for delays.  As usual, coach-potatoes across the United States complain, and the blame game has already started. It’s America’s favorite pastime (much more fun than fixing our problems). Other posts about the swine flue epidemic: (1) What about …
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Part 3 of this series – disturbing evidence from the UK. The previous chapters were: (1) What about all the hype, the extreme warnings, about swine flu?, 3 September 2009 (2) Update: about the swine flu epidemic, 9 October 2009 (4) Who to blame for the delay in producing the swine flu vaccine?, 4 November 2009 (5) More about …
Part 2 in a series about the swine flu pandemic, and the evidence that governments have used this as an excuse to claim wide and disturbing new powers. Other chapters: (1) What about all the hype, the extreme warnings, about swine flu?, 3 September 2009. (3) Is the Swine Flu pandemic being used to an excuse …
