Comments by "TaichiStraightlife" (@TaichiStraightlife) on "Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - March 21st, 2021 | Meet The Press | NBC News" video.

  1.  @dr.h.e.sawyerjr.9984  - Well doc, now that you mention stupid... listen; the authoritative book on this subject, "The Great Influenza", by John M. Barry, states exactly that: US/Kansas, on an army base. And if you want to mention stupid again: how the US dealt with that Influenza was pretty much as stupid as how the trump administration handled this one. So here's what it says on the back cover of the paperback edition of this book, currently in my hand: "In the winter of 1918, at the height of WWl, history's most lethal influential virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide..." It goes on from there. And doc? You're welcome for the education. PS- I recommend this book, along with Barry's Rising Tide, about the Mississippi floods of 1927 (and also the Randy Newman song about the same event: LOUISIANA 1927 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB0I6uxRglY)
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  2.  @ShadyCool  - "Wildly unsubstantiated claim"? Yeah, I know the drill, Ec 1; you have "alternate facts" that agree with your political interpretation of history. Well, here's John M. Barry, a graduate degree in history, and the reception his book received: "...His 2004 book The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest Plague in History was also a New York Times Best Seller, and won the 2005 Keck Communication Award from the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for the year's outstanding book on science or medicine. In 2005 he also won the "September 11th Award" from the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens at Brown University. He has served on a federal government's Infectious Disease Board of Experts, on the advisory board of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Engineering Fundamentals, and on the advisory committee at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for its Center for Refugee and Disaster Response." John M Barry himself: John M. Barry (b. 1947[1]) is an American author and historian who has written books on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the influenza pandemic of 1918, and the development of the modern form of the ideas of separation of church and state and individual liberty. He is a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Distinguished Scholar at Tulane's Bywater Institute. But then there's the "eclectic 1" , w/ his "wildly unsubstantiated" alternate facts exhortations... gee; which one shall I believe??
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  3.  @ShadyCool - First off, the phrase is not "world's apart", it's worlds apart. Secondly, with popular culture being what it is, with that hate-filled trump rhetoric having inflamed hatred up and down this country, to the extent that people of Asian origin are being attacked and even killed over loaded terms such as "kung flu" etc.. It might be wiser for you to pull your head out of the ground or from whatever dark orifice in which it's currently lodged, to reflect on our national cultural zeitgeist and the wisdom of claiming that something doesn't have racist overtones SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU SAY SO. Now, in cooler times we might indeed have that discussion, but in fact these are fraught times and people are being attacked and killed because of these phrases that have inflamed the racists with their furious "Go back to China!" etc. Merely a word to the wise.
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  4.  @Tomorrison28  - Well argued.
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