Max Brooks on Prepping and Pandemics

[dualstow]

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

[Kriegsspiel]

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."

[drumminj]

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.

[dualstow]

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."

Hey, what do i know. I’m just a guy listening to the radio. Maybe it’s the blind leading the blind.

[dualstow]

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.”

[yankees60]

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

Mathjak?

Vinny

[Mountaineer]

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."

Hey, what do i know. I’m just a guy listening to the radio. Maybe it’s the blind leading the blind.

TLH - over rated? Under employed? May the forth be with you.

[dualstow]

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.”

[dualstow]

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

[yankees60]

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

Dualstow!

New picture a rabbit??!!

Vinny

[Mountaineer]

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.

[Maddy]

Dualstow!
New picture a rabbit??!!

I'm thinking a lion with his paws crossed.