COVID-19 like Pearl Harbor? Nope. More like The Battle of Britain

[stopbush]

First off, we knew the corona virus was on it’s way to us, just like the UK knew Hitler was on the way in WWII. Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack - the assault of the corona virus was anything but a sneak attack. In fact, it was the opposite of a sneak attack.

The Battle of Britain was fought over months, and almost entirely on British soil and air. Thousands of civilians died, destruction was rained down upon the country and life became anything but normal. But the Brits eventually won the battle, due in large part to the emerging science of radar, devising a winning and realistic battle strategy (even though grossly outgunned) and to their never-give-up spirit.

[mwooldri]

1. I like this analogy and thank you :) NT

[csziggy]

2. Otherwise known as The Blitz - 43,000 civilians died and 139,000 wounded

The Blitz, (September 1940–May 1941), nighttime bombing raids against London and other British cities by Nazi Germany during World War II. The raids followed the failure of the German Luftwaffe to defeat Britain’s Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain (July–September 1940). Although the raids caused enormous destruction and heavy civilian casualties—some 43,000 British civilians were killed and another 139,000 were wounded—they had little effect on Britain’s ability to continue in the war and failed in its immediate purpose of dominating the skies in preparation for a German invasion of England.
https://www.britannica.com/event/the-Blitz

You are right - this is more like The Blitz.

[atreides1]

3. Nope

More like the Chernobyl disaster. The powers that be, knew things were bad...but decided to lie and obfuscate the actual facts...to push the personal agenda of the countries "leadership"!!!

Now, those who had no say are the ones who are putting up a valiant fight to keep this from getting worse...and like Chernobyl, some who are trying to tell the truth, are being silenced by the authorities!

In the Battle of Britain, the English people knew what was coming, and the government kept them informed...

[TheBlackAdder]

4. George Takei said it best.

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George Takei
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@GeorgeTakei

Sorry. This isn’t our “Pearl Harbor” moment. That was a surprise, dastardly attack by an enemy nation. This is our “Chernobyl” moment: a preventable catastrophe that was denied, downplayed and mismanaged until tens of thousands were dead.

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[malaise]

5. The truth

[Javaman]

6. I prefer: slow motion trainwreck.

He knew the trains were on the wrong track, he knew he could have stopped them, but he told all the passengers, "don't worry, there are two train tracks! (there weren't two train tracks).

He got off at the last station before the crash. Then the crash happened.

He denied it because he didn't see it actually happen and called it a hoax, but as the trains continued to crash and the body count mounted, he changed his tune to say it will only be a few deaths, but the crash continued on, and he, yet again, changed his tune, "it will be bad but we are doing everything to stop the trains.

He did nothing, he did less than nothing, he sold all the train brakes to another country.

And the slow motion train wreck continues unabated. A few heroic passengers were able to throw some of the people off the train. they yelled for help, but he kept having press conferences stating that those passengers were alarmists and need to shut up.

And the train wreck continued

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. You're not the only one to see it like that - eg the Irish PM

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He called for the public's help in making social distancing workable and he paid tribute to healthcare workers who he said "need us to do the right things in the weeks ahead".

"Not all superheroes wear capes… some wear scrubs and gowns."

He said this is the calm before the storm and the surge will come.
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He said when the surge comes "never will so much be asked of so few".

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0317/1123774-taoiseach-to-broadcast-to-country-on-covid-19-at-9pm/

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New mural in San Jose is a ‘thank you’ to healthcare workers

A new mural sprang up on a fence near San Jose State last weekend that is a picture perfect message of gratitude to the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers battling the coronavirus. The images of a white-coated doctor and two people in scrubs surround Winston Churchill’s famous World War II quote, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”

And, yes, if you look closely, the doctor has “Dr. Fauci” on his coat.

The mural was created by artist Denise M. Olenak with assistance from her friend, Alexanna Alvarado, who recently graduated from nursing school and on Monday signed up to be part of California’s Healthcorps. The fence along San Carlos Street belongs to Salas O’Brien Engineers on South 11th Street. Olenak painted the Victorian home that houses the business a few years back and told Carl and Marianne Salas — the building’s owners — she would throw in a mural.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/31/new-mural-in-san-jose-is-a-thank-you-to-healthcare-workers-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tw-mercnews&utm_source=twitter.com