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The Red Dawn Emails
April 11, 2020 at 8:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/11/the-red-dawn-emails/
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As the coronavirus emerged and headed toward the United States, an extraordinary conversation was hatched among an elite group of infectious disease doctors and medical experts in the federal government and academic institutions around the nation, the New York Times reports.
Red Dawn a nod to the 1984 film with Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen was the nickname for the email chain they built. Different threads in the chain were named Red Dawn Breaking, Red Dawn Rising, Red Dawn Breaking Bad and, as the situation grew more dire, Red Dawn Raging.
Key exchanges from the emails, with context and analysis, show the experts rising sense of frustration and then anger as their advice seemingly failed to break through to the administration, raising the odds that more people would likely die.
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applegrove
(118,642 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)n/t
Nacht Owl
(66 posts)This has been an Owl-to-Owl Transmission.
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)Demonaut
(8,914 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)Demonaut
(8,914 posts)google it, see the devotion that north has to their leader, it's right ups trumps alley
applegrove
(118,642 posts)Celerity
(43,349 posts)oki, I admit, it is a parody satire account, but it sounds exactly like NoKo
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Celerity
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Gothmog
(145,176 posts)MFM008
(19,808 posts)More more more on this one.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Open it in Adobe Reader, and save it to your hard drive. That will let you look at it on your own schedule.
Here's a direct link to the PDF file:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf