A Couple More Reads – Coronavirus Edition

Part 1, probably….

From this article by Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek about early US intelligence warnings of a contagion in China way the fuck back in November:

“the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI)” ← part of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency

Seems like once a week I learn about another part of US Intelligence.

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From this editorial Dana Milbank about how Trump Blew It:

[Rabbi Jeremy Kridel, following several antisemetic interruptions of his Zoom service:] “This is just another indication of the fact that the current crisis isn’t the only one we face.”

This is one of those rare bons-mots that are also remarkably profound – and equally devastating.

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