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Our pandering politicians who put votes first and foremost are not willing to invest in preparations for viral pandemics or EMP attack when there are special interest groups to please and pork that yield far more votes.\u00a0 Even after 9\/11, political correctness kept us from focusing extra security checks on young Arab males rather than randomly selecting old ladies.<\/p>\n
As a former intelligence officer and DoD think tank analyst, I worry most about bioterrorism.\u00a0 Taleb warned that:\u00a0 \u201cthings have a bias to appear more stable and less risky in the past, leading us to surprises. . . .\u00a0 The history of epidemics, narrowly studied, does not suggest the risks of the great plague to come that will dominate the planet. . . . \u00a0As we travel more on this planet, epidemics will be more acute\u2014we will have a germ population dominated by a few numbers, and the successful killer will spread vastly more effectively.\u201d[iv]<\/a> We do not hold emergency services exercises dealing with viruses that have 90%+ lethality.\u00a0 We assume most \u201cfirst responders\u201d and key public servants will show up for work when a viral pandemic hits.\u00a0 We assume we can contain the spread of such a viral pandemic.\u00a0 All nonsense.\u00a0 We are not prepared for either a natural viral pandemic or bioterrorism.\u00a0 While the timing is unpredictable, it is probable that the vast majority of the population won\u2019t survive the virus, the collapse of the economy, or the attacks of surviving marauders stealing to survive.<\/p>\n Trying to warn people about this doesn\u2019t go over well\u2014it\u2019s too unpleasant a topic.\u00a0 I finally decided to write an action adventure novel about the threat since that\u2019s about the only way to get people to read about the dangers and pay attention to what we must do to prepare.\u00a0 Rohan Nation:\u00a0 Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse, <\/em>tells how survivors of bioterrorism and EMP fight to defend and reinvent America.[v]<\/a> The disasters that lead to billions of deaths are based on sound research and analysis, the predictable results of on-going mistakes.\u00a0 ACE, the daughter of a family that prepared for the worst, and Justin, her cavalry scout apprentice, struggle to survive in a post-collapse economy where horses are again key to survival.\u00a0 The book is both an Atlas Shrugged<\/em>-like call to get our unconstitutional government refocused on security and a guide to preparations every family needs to take now to be prepared for disasters that could hit today.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll describe some of the threats in more detail later, along with recommendations on how you can prepare to deal with the dangers since our pandering politicians are too busy expanding socialism and campaigning for reelection.<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a> Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan:\u00a0 the Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2nd edition, Random House, 2010<\/p>\n [iii]<\/a> TESTIMONY OF U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD H. RUMSFELD BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ON RATIFICATION OF THE MOSCOW TREATY, July 25, 2002<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/RN-cover-thumbnail1-225x300.jpg\")
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[i]<\/a> Robert Baer, \u201cSee No Evil:\u00a0 The True Story of a Ground Solider in the CIA\u2019s War on Terrorism,\u201d Crown Publishers, 2002, p. xvii.<\/p>\n