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Tony Blair, former British prime minister, wants governments to treat future pandemic preparedness as a national security issue. Credit: Daniel Hambury/@stellapicsltd
Governments must treat future pandemic preparedness as a “national security” issue, developing shared systems for identifying mutations and new viruses, former UK prime minister Tony Blair said last Friday.
While he acknowledged that governments – including his own – have struggled to address future risks, Blair said leaders should view the challenge much as they do defence.
“It’s right to look at it almost in national security terms – we prepare ourselves, and have the ability to defend ourselves, even though we don’t intend or want that we should have to do that,” Blair told an online event hosted by the London-based Institute for Government (IfG) think tank on Friday. “It’s likely that these types of pathogens will be present and can give rise to pandemics in a way that’s never happened bef
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Feb. 11, 2021
The meme that sent Melissa Rein Lively fully into the universe of QAnon was about the Holocaust.
“I’ll never forget the image,” she said in a recent interview. “The meme that I saw that changed everything for me was a picture of Jews basically being put on a boxcar with masks, saying, ‘First they put you in the masks, and then they put you in the boxcars.” To Rein Lively, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, it instantly connected the mask mandates meant to prevent the spread of coronavirus to the scariest chapter in history, as the first step in a plan of wider government control.