{"id":10331,"date":"2024-01-05T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/?p=10331"},"modified":"2024-01-06T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T13:16:24","slug":"disaster-lockouts-did-far-more-harm-than-good-and-vaccinations-saved-three-million-but-did-not-save-one-and-a-half-million-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/press-release\/disaster-lockouts-did-far-more-harm-than-good-and-vaccinations-saved-three-million-but-did-not-save-one-and-a-half-million-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster: Lockouts Did Far More Harm Than \u00a0Good, and Vaccinations Saved Three Million \u00a0But Did Not Save One-and-a-Half Million More\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CONTACT:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>John Norris\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>617-680-3127\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>John.Norris@Safely2Prosperity.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>https:\/\/www.safely2prosperity.com<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>January 5, 2024 \u2013 (BOSTON)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"196\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_2.png 196w, https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_2-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I am a former FDA COO and Harvard faculty member,\u00a0and a decades-long infectious disease spread risk\u00a0management expert. (It\u2019s the rate, depth, and breadth\u00a0of \u201cspread\u201d that counts.) At the FDA, I co-led its last\u00a0major internal reform. At Harvard, I taught policy, law, and management courses, including risk\u00a0management.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems my nearly full-time job today is to repeatedly blow the whistle on where&nbsp; America is and where it now continues to head when protecting its people from the&nbsp; ravages of the next wave of pandemic, endemic, local, or enterprise sized deadly&nbsp; pathogenic attack, whether the attack is nature-made or human-manufactured. The&nbsp; story is not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America and the world have improved little in this regard over the ages, from killing&nbsp; up to as many as half the world\u2019s population by not controlling the spread of the&nbsp; bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, at least 675,000 Americans (and 21M more&nbsp; worldwide) from not controlling the spread of the Flu in 1918, and at least 1.6M&nbsp; Americans (and as many as 5.2M more worldwide) from not controlling the spread&nbsp; of COVID-19 in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, we continue to use mostly the same old strategies and tools today. Let\u2019s&nbsp; wake up ourselves and others. Given Iran\u2019s current eagerness to support terrorist&nbsp; groups in committing atrocities, the human-manufactured bio-attack dangers today&nbsp; are far greater than they were even in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature keeps blasting us. And now we also have a significant risk of lone-wolf,&nbsp; group, and nation-state terrorism to deal with. It is believed by some that there are&nbsp; as many as 3,000 Iranian agents embedded in the US, just waiting to launch a&nbsp; chemical or bio attack on America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-held belief of a high risk of nuclear attack is now passe. Given its&nbsp; overwhelming power and easy traceability, only an insane nation-state would use&nbsp; (or enable or allow to be used) a nuclear weapon today. And we can do nothing to&nbsp; prevent, mitigate, or control the damages from that big an attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second leg of devastation, the use of chemical weapons, can happen, but their&nbsp; use is far less impactful than nuclear attacks. And chemical attacks, no matter how&nbsp; large, do not spontaneously and vastly grow once seeded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, a well-planned bioattack keeps growing and growing, like a fire&nbsp; does. However, bio spread is different and far more likely to be spread more swiftly&nbsp; and broadly because each infected individual carries the pathogenic torch&nbsp; everywhere they go&#8211;office to office, plant to plant, town to town, city to city, and&nbsp; state to state. And given the hyper-connectivity of nations provided by modern&nbsp; aircraft, every nation to every nation in less than a day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If 3,000 agents gave birth to just one bio-terrorist attack each (by one method and&nbsp; means or another) in 3,000 of America\u2019s critical infrastructure government&nbsp; agencies and companies, and America is unprepared to prevent, mitigate, and&nbsp; control the spread of the pathogen or multiple pathogens within and among its&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>critical agencies and companies and their employees and families, it would be&nbsp; brought to its knees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few years, I have published over 100 articles and posts on the&nbsp; preparation, prevention, mitigation, and control of infectious disease spread. The pace, depth, and breadth of spread count the most. Of course, the deadliness of&nbsp; the pathogen also counts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even using the deadliest of pathogens, you only kill 100M Americans, a truly&nbsp; devastating result if the <strong>spread <\/strong>is vast and almost totally uncontrolled within (and&nbsp; by) government agencies and companies, both for-profit and not-for-profit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many critical government agencies need to do a better job of protecting&nbsp; themselves and the people they serve. And many critical companies must do the&nbsp; same. Their employees, families, and taxpayers\/customers continue to be at high&nbsp; risk. And their highly skilled protection is essential to our national security and&nbsp; defense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of great importance: front-line workers in high-risk jobs, who consist primarily of&nbsp; poorly paid Hispanic, Black, and White people and represent most employees in&nbsp; many companies, are the least protected. CEOs care about them. But even if they&nbsp; do not, they care about themselves and their own families.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, every industry, every organization, every leader, every union, every employee,&nbsp; every family member, every investor, every insurer, every bank, and every advisor&nbsp; owns the problem. Regrettably, everyone is looking to someone else to solve the&nbsp; problem. Instead, we must all stick together and address it just as we did when&nbsp; nuclear weapons were the most significant threat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regrettably, lockouts did far more harm than good, and vaccinations saved three&nbsp; million Americans but did not save one-and-a-half million more. The strategy and&nbsp; the tools were not good enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My teammates and I have invented and developed a significant part of the solution.\u00a0 But everyone must now kick in. You can reach me\u00a0at John.Norris@Safely2Prosperity.com if you want to learn more. (c) Safely2Prosperity LLC and Dr. John Norris. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTACT:&nbsp; John Norris\u00a0 617-680-3127\u00a0 John.Norris@Safely2Prosperity.com\u00a0 https:\/\/www.safely2prosperity.com January 5, 2024 \u2013 (BOSTON) I am a former FDA COO and Harvard faculty member,\u00a0and a decades-long infectious disease spread risk\u00a0management expert. (It\u2019s the rate, depth, and breadth\u00a0of \u201cspread\u201d that counts.) At the FDA, I co-led its last\u00a0major internal reform. 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