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  • Harsher in Hindsight: Dr. Weaver is concerned to the point of obsession with a hypothetical scenario where a flu-like virus emerges and becomes a deadly epidemic because adequate vaccines and treatments aren't available. While Weaver was fixated on the idea that the threat would come from the Spanish Flu virus from 1918, it's not hard to see the parallels between the scenario he was imagining and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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