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Related: About this forumExpert predicts coming pandemic in 2006 on Oprah Show
nobody could have known -donald j. Idiot.
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Expert predicts coming pandemic in 2006 on Oprah Show (Original Post)
magicguido
Apr 2020
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MichMan
(11,868 posts)1. Hey, they were only off 14 years.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)2. Most people know scientists have been talking about the next big pandemic for years and years.
Concerns aired in documentaries, movies, major magazines, books, particularly last few decades in light of looking at new info on 1918 pandemic.
I dont know how a literate person could miss it and then SARS, MERS, Ebola...do not have to have been an egg head to get this.
And Obama left infrastructure on place. But honestly, Trump just not interested in any but his own
greedy, self-aggrandizing agenda and whatever Putin wanted from him and carrying out the will of the GOP.
Fact is he didnt give a fig.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)3. Indeed: how could any literate person have missed it?
The red states are full of illiterate people and we know tRump can barely read anything.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)4. That's the problem, yes.