MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: July 20, 2021 Dear editor, in October of 2014, as a Disaster Medicine planner and responder, I posted an article in MyEdmondsNews regarding Ebola and the potential for a future catastrophic and devastating worldwide contagion. In that script, I stated the unpopular notion that our health care system nationally and locally was not prepared; inadequately trained, inadequately staffed and inadequately supplied. Now, as we begin to slowly emerge from our homes and from under the darkness of COVID, we see where this lack of foresight and attention to planning has taken us. What also comes to my mind is the nasty four-letter word emergency response planners disdain: That word is