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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Sun Apr 12, 2020, 01:26 AM Apr 2020

The 'Red Dawn' Emails

The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails

April 11, 2020 at 8:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/11/the-red-dawn-emails/

"SNIP.....

“As the coronavirus emerged and headed toward the United States, an extraordinary conversation was hatched among an elite group of infectious disease doctors and medical experts in the federal government and academic institutions around the nation,” the New York Times reports.

“Red Dawn — a nod to the 1984 film with Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen — was the nickname for the email chain they built. Different threads in the chain were named Red Dawn Breaking, Red Dawn Rising, Red Dawn Breaking Bad and, as the situation grew more dire, Red Dawn Raging.”

“Key exchanges from the emails, with context and analysis, show the experts’ rising sense of frustration and then anger as their advice seemingly failed to break through to the administration, raising the odds that more people would likely die.”

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The 'Red Dawn' Emails (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2020 OP
More like Red Don. applegrove Apr 2020 #1
Red Don Declining Blue Owl Apr 2020 #2
Red Don Declining Rapidly Nacht Owl Apr 2020 #10
Transmission Received Blue Owl Apr 2020 #15
You need to trademark this name Gothmog Apr 2020 #19
red dawn, it would explain his preoccupation with the DPRK Demonaut Apr 2020 #3
DPRK? applegrove Apr 2020 #4
democratic people's republic of korea Demonaut Apr 2020 #5
Thanks. applegrove Apr 2020 #7
they (NoKo) have a mad as ass Twitter account too, lolol Celerity Apr 2020 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Rainbow Droid Apr 2020 #9
almost correct, it is two of his bloggers on Popehat, Derrick, and Patrick (no last names as they Celerity Apr 2020 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Apr 2020 #6
trump ignore this coming crisis Gothmog Apr 2020 #12
We will hear MFM008 Apr 2020 #13
This is just beginning. Gothmog Apr 2020 #14
Go to the NYT link and then click to the PDF of the full 80 pages. MineralMan Apr 2020 #16
I read a great deal if not most of these emails Gothmog Apr 2020 #17
Yes. He ignored expert advice, as usual. MineralMan Apr 2020 #18

Demonaut

(8,914 posts)
5. democratic people's republic of korea
Sun Apr 12, 2020, 01:58 AM
Apr 2020

google it, see the devotion that north has to their leader, it's right ups trumps alley

Celerity

(43,326 posts)
8. they (NoKo) have a mad as ass Twitter account too, lolol
Sun Apr 12, 2020, 03:17 AM
Apr 2020

oki, I admit, it is a parody satire account, but it sounds exactly like NoKo








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MineralMan

(146,286 posts)
16. Go to the NYT link and then click to the PDF of the full 80 pages.
Sun Apr 12, 2020, 01:41 PM
Apr 2020

Open it in Adobe Reader, and save it to your hard drive. That will let you look at it on your own schedule.

Here's a direct link to the PDF file:

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf

Gothmog

(145,130 posts)
17. I read a great deal if not most of these emails
Sun Apr 12, 2020, 01:48 PM
Apr 2020

The experts in our government knew of this threat and were ignored by trump


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