Thread by @JustinTLogan

This Walter Russell Mead offering is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time. wsj.com/articles/the-c…

“our technologically sophisticated global way of life is a lot more vulnerable to disruption than the simpler world of our ancestors.” We are literally having groceries delivered to our doors. Also the Spanish flu had its own..disruption.

Then it’s aging-white-man-bong-rip time:

I’m certain ISIS would like to have this kind of capability. In the meantime, literally the entire world is struggling to pin down “how does COVID-19 attack and how can we defend against it?” Again, here are The Terrorists:

“In a post-Covid future, some countries and nonstate actors will be tempted to seek the capacity to create plagues, and every country will need to defend against them.” It is possible for a powerful state to create and loose a plague. What you want to ask yourself is:

“What political goal could they achieve by doing so?” I’ll wait.

Then we wrap up with a call for “hardening cities, health systems, businesses and supply chains” and this Thatcher quote:

In short, everybody needs a tough editor. Even Esteemed Wise Men like Mead.