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EPISODE · Mar 5, 2020 · 28 MIN

The Directorate of Operational Medicine

from Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show

There was a recent article that claims that Genghis Kahn is now considered �the most Green Invader in History.� Why? Because � I am not kidding here � he killed so many people that the Earth, which had been warming, started to cool off. Which has me wondering about all the myths and the Pangolins associated with the Corona Virus-19. Meanwhile, the question remains, why is it that the US Government seems so incapable of ever handling a natural disaster in any kind of cogent manner? Like most everything, how you feel about how a given Administration is handling a given disaster says more about you than it does the actual politician that you hate or love. After all, hate, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. Meanwhile, given that the current President has been on record (via Twitter) being dead set against bringing patients infected with the Ebola into the country, why did he bring a bunch of people infected with the Ebola into the country? No, Dave, you say� it�s the Corona virus-19. Um� nope� it was the Ebola then. Now it�s the Corona virus-19. But in either case, the reason that the only thing our government can do is spend $8.3 Billion of your dollars on �prevention� (you know� wash your hands!) and preparedness is exactly the same reason that it has been since the early 1960s: The Directorate of Operational Medicine�

There was a recent article that claims that Genghis Kahn is now considered �the most Green Invader in History.� Why? Because � I am not kidding here � he killed so many people that the Earth, which had been warming, started to cool off. Which has me wondering about all the myths and the Pangolins associated with the Corona Virus-19. Meanwhile, the question remains, why is it that the US Government seems so incapable of ever handling a natural disaster in any kind of cogent manner? Like most everything, how you feel about how a given Administration is handling a given disaster says more about you than it does the actual politician that you hate or love. After all, hate, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. Meanwhile, given that the current President has been on record (via Twitter) being dead set against bringing patients infected with the Ebola into the country, why did he bring a bunch of people infected with the Ebola into the country? No, Dave, you say� it�s the Corona virus-19. Um� nope� it was the Ebola then. Now it�s the Corona virus-19. But in either case, the reason that the only thing our government can do is spend $8.3 Billion of your dollars on �prevention� (you know� wash your hands!) and preparedness is exactly the same reason that it has been since the early 1960s: The Directorate of Operational Medicine�

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