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Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by dualstow » Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:38 pm

EDIT: link https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/
I suppose this could go in the general COVID thread, but:

The author of World War Z who is also some kind of military strategist was on Fresh Air on NPR. He had some interesting things to say, for example: countries with a siege mentality are better equipped to deal with something like the coronavirus because they already have a sense of vulnerability. He listed

S Korea
Taiwan
Israel
“and even Cuba.”

He said the U.S. always gets sucker-punched by events like these but that America is good at rebounding and reinventing itself.

I learned a new initialism: PPE (He said it in the plural, PPEs) = Personal Protective Equipment
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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:51 pm

dualstow wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:38 pm
who is also some kind of military strategist
::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
I learned a new initialism: PPE (He said it in the plural, PPEs) = Personal Protective Equipment
LOL, nobody in the history of acronyms says PPEs. It's just PPE. As in "If you don't have all your PPE on the sergeant major will lose his shit on you."
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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by drumminj » Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:52 pm

dualstow wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:38 pm
I learned a new initialism: PPE (He said it in the plural, PPEs) = Personal Protective Equipment
That's a common term with first responders/Search and Rescue and such. At least that's where I became familiar with it.
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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by dualstow » Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:14 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:51 pm
dualstow wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:38 pm
who is also some kind of military strategist
::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
I learned a new initialism: PPE (He said it in the plural, PPEs) = Personal Protective Equipment
LOL, nobody in the history of acronyms says PPEs. It's just PPE. As in "If you don't have all your PPE on the sergeant major will lose his shit on you."
O0 Hey, what do i know. I’m just a guy listening to the radio. Maybe it’s the blind leading the blind. O0
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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by dualstow » Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:57 pm

It was interesting to learn about how we had stockpiling until the end of the Cold War. “If this pandemic had occurred in 1965, we’d be all set.”
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Post by vnatale » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:08 pm

dualstow wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:57 pm
It was interesting to learn about how we had stockpiling until the end of the Cold War. “If this pandemic had occurred in 1965, we’d be all set.”
Now many here remember this?

Northeast blackout of 1965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast ... ut_of_1965

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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by Mountaineer » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:18 am

dualstow wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:14 pm
Kriegsspiel wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:51 pm
dualstow wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:38 pm
who is also some kind of military strategist
::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
I learned a new initialism: PPE (He said it in the plural, PPEs) = Personal Protective Equipment
LOL, nobody in the history of acronyms says PPEs. It's just PPE. As in "If you don't have all your PPE on the sergeant major will lose his shit on you."
O0 Hey, what do i know. I’m just a guy listening to the radio. Maybe it’s the blind leading the blind. O0
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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by dualstow » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:30 am

Listen, kriegsspiel is a smart guy with real military experience. If he *didn’t* roll his eyes at a comedian’s son who lectures at the Naval War College, I would assume there’s a tear in the fabric of the Universe.

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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by dualstow » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:42 am

Btw, unlike with Cuomo’s press conference, I did take notes on the above. Here are some links to things mentioned.

• Defense Production Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_P ... ct_of_1950
• Nat’l Response Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... _Framework
• Army Logistics Branch - not much at the wiki page for that, but there is this sub-branch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Corps
GERM WARFARE: A Very Graphic History. (mentioned) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisa ... blications
• Vibrant Response - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gotham_Shield
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Post by vnatale » Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:54 pm

dualstow wrote:
Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:42 am
Btw, unlike with Cuomo’s press conference, I did take notes on the above. Here are some links to things mentioned.

• Defense Production Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_P ... ct_of_1950
• Nat’l Response Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... _Framework
• Army Logistics Branch - not much at the wiki page for that, but there is this sub-branch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Corps
GERM WARFARE: A Very Graphic History. (mentioned) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisa ... blications
• Vibrant Response - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gotham_Shield
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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by Mountaineer » Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:45 pm

dualstow wrote:
Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:30 am
Listen, kriegsspiel is a smart guy with real military experience. If he *didn’t* roll his eyes at a comedian’s son who lectures at the Naval War College, I would assume there’s a tear in the fabric of the Universe.

Not sure what TLH means here. It took me long enough to learn “tax loss harvesting.”
Three Letter Acronym. No wonder you didn't get it, I meant to write TLA. My bad. Ooops. :o
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Re: Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

Post by Maddy » Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:37 pm

vnatale wrote:
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