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by Betsy McCaughey • August 5, 2020 at 5:00 am
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* Year after year, the career officials who run the bureaucracy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the permanent bureaucracy, who are globalists... preferred to spend money on building labs in Africa, fighting disease in Afghanistan, training scientists in China, instead of preparing our own American stockpile.
* The CDC should also be advising schools and workplaces, like businesses, about the antimicrobial coatings that could be put on desks, chairs, and doorknobs to prevent the virus traces from being transferred from one person to another on their hands.
* There are now several different technologies, most notably diluted hydrogen peroxide, that can be installed in buildings to automatically continuously destroy bacterial and viral traces on surfaces, and also deactivate viruses in the air. Just what we need. Yet in the CDC guidelines there is no discussion of them. They are non‑toxic. They can work automatically and continuously. They are already in use by major commercial places such as Walmart, Pepsi bottling plants, computer companies that need clean rooms to construct computers. They all know about this.
* The CDC also did not mention anything about public restrooms... We know that this virus, like many hospital pathogens... is found in fecal matter. When the toilet flushes... that can take traces of the virus into the air.... The simplest solution is to put a lid on each of those toilets and a sign, "Please close the lid before flushing."
* I want to go on to two other things. One is the danger that we are losing respect for science. It is because we have seen our scientists get too involved in politics.... "Lancet" and "The New England Journal of Medicine"....attempt[ed] to debunk the use of hydroxychloroquine. They wanted to discredit President Trump because it is among his favorite drugs, but they ended up making fools of themselves because they put aside their usually rigorous standards of peer review and data examination and published two garbage articles with bogus data in order to accomplish a political goal.
* Here is the most interesting. Three vaccine developers from Britain and Norway report that they see in the genetic makeup of this virus... a segment that they believe was lab engineered rather than evolving in nature. As soon as they proposed this, a bevy of prestigious American scientists... were outraged and signed an open letter... declaring their solidarity with the Chinese scientists, health researchers, and the World Health Organization against people who might be investigating other sources of COVID‑19 that diverge from the Chinese official story. Can you imagine? There they are trying to censor the research. They are claiming it is a conspiracy theory. ABC News comes on and says it has been debunked. It has not been debunked. I am not saying it is true, but I am saying, at this point, what we need to battle this virus is the truth, not censored research. Scientists need to be scientists. They do not need to be censoring politicians.
* I think we have to recognize, as our current president does, that China is an enemy.
* Again, I have to say it is the president who has been very dynamic on this issue. Never mind the career bureaucrats in any of these agencies. He is the one who went to Virginia himself and made sure that we started contracts to build a domestic supply chain.
* "The Next Pandemic" (McCaughey's new book) is out from Encounter Books. It is really quite short, more like a broadside. I list a lot of these new technologies that should be employed to make our workplaces, schools, and mass transit safer.

We have to level with the public about the efficacy of masks. If they are universally worn, masks are highly effective in preventing the spread. That was one of the major reasons that a few small Asian countries were able to cope effectively with this challenge. Pictured: A class at Dajia Elementary School, in Taiwan, where face masks are mandatory in schools. (Photo by Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)

Looking ahead is probably more constructive and more interesting than simply analyzing what has already occurred. One, is how to avoid ever having another shutdown. Two, what we can do to prepare for the next viral pandemic ‑‑ there will be more ‑‑ and the possibility of germ warfare.

That risk has certainly gone up since our enemies around the world have watched how this virus has laid us low. It is obvious that introducing a virus into a country is a lot easier than building aircraft carriers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

All of the security experts agree that we have to be more on guard than ever about the risk of some sort of germ warfare. Many of the preparatory steps, defensive measures that I'm going to discuss are equally applicable to a viral pandemic or a man-made threat.

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