C-Day

Do you remember learning about D-Day?  Maybe in school, or from your father or grandpa or an uncle?

That was when the WWII Allies mounted the largest amphibious landing in the history of the world in France on D-Day, despite knowing for a fact that the casualty rate would be appalling (General Eisenhower was told that paratrooper casualties alone could be as high as 75 percent.)

And they did indeed suffered huge, bloody losses.

And then they finally secured the beaches, moved the heavy equipment ashore and slogged their way several miles inland.

Do you remember learning that, upon hearing the news that the Allies had landed in France, President Franklin Roosevelt announced that the war was pretty much over?  And that he then ordered Eisenhower to turn the army around and sail everyone back to England so that hair salons and bowling alleys could reopen and everything could get back to normal?

Yeah, I don't remember that last part either.

From CNBC:

The US is not even ‘remotely’ ready to re-open for business, says outbreak preparedness expert

The U.S. is not even “remotely prepared” to re-open, an expert said on Tuesday as some states are set to lift lockdowns that had been imposed to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

“We’re not remotely prepared neither in terms of the epidemiology of the outbreak in the United States, nor in terms of our preparedness capacities to begin suppressing this virus in ways other than through social distancing,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, a think tank. His expertise includes global outbreak preparedness...

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