Warzone/The Drive: COVID-19 Drives Command Teams Charged With Homeland Defense Into Cheyenne Mountain Bunker
Another US military command and control element is also now isolated in a third, undisclosed location.
U.S. Northern Command has dispersed essential command and control teams to multiple hardened locations, including the famous Cheyenne Mountain bunker complex in Colorado, as well as another unspecified site, and is keeping them in isolation. The command took these steps to help ensure these personnel can continue to watch around the clock for potential threats to the U.S. homeland as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to expand across the country and around the world, including within the U.S. military.
U.S. Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, head of Northern Command (NORTHCOM), who also serves as the commanding officer of the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), detailed the changes during a virtual town hall on Facebook on Mar. 24, 2020. Under normal circumstances, the watch teams, which support both NORTHCOM and NORAD missions, would take shifts staffing a central command center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.
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WNU Editor: Any doubts that the Pentagon is not taking the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic seriously can now be put to rest. You do not disperse and isolate essential NORAD command and control teams to multiple hardened locations unless the situation was very serious.
5 comments:
I think they must be thinking what everyone sees
1. A virus starts in Wuhan, China around mid November
2. For more than a month, China suppresses any information, including arresting the doctor who tried to warn the World and who is now dead, RIP, thank you for trying to warn us! You will not be forgotten - a true human
3. The virus kills about 3,000 in China, but is likely to kill tens of thousands in the US when all is over
4. The virus seems to kill elderly, immuno-compromised people mostly.. this includes overweight, diabetes, people with heart conditions -- all very much present in the US (hence the different death toll rate)
5. This virus spreads so fast and violently that it is a freak of nature -- it sits right at the sweet spot of virii (the equivalent of a Goldilocks zone): it shows few symptoms for the longest time, so you keep spreading it.. then it kills and spreads fear.. a very terrorising weapon indeed
6. This comes at the onset of a new cold war, in which China and the US are in fierce trade, cultural and military confrontation. Sure, coincidence, alright.. but.. China not telling the rest of the World will have caused tens of thousands of deaths around the World and crippled the World economy. This is on them and them alone.
7. On top, China spread misinformation, as you would do during warfare. Telling the World this was an American virus. This is so insulting. Imagine your loved ones, the elderly, the weak, those you want to protect, are KILLED by this thing coming from China at a LARGER NUMBER than in China and then China has the audacity to blame it on us and not their wet market practices or the Wuhan Biolab. Out-fucking-rageous and this WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!!
8. The US Navy will be crippled by this, rendering much of the service inoperable during the next months
9. China sells MALFUNCTIONING, UNRELIABLE test kits, at the height of a globbal pandemic, and gifts non-working test kits to Italy, Spain - some of the hardest hit areas, WORSENING their condition, killing many more. This is beyond anything I have ever seen - no shame in the Chinese. NO SHAME AT ALL.
So yeah, I hope the US, Europe and all other nations on this planet take the Chinese threat seriously. You have 1.5bn people who have been radicalized, indoctrinated over years and they all are deeply patriotic... much like Nazi Germany back then. I do hope people understand how close we are to full war with China. This is no joke. This is no drill. This is it.
And just so you know. .if Trump wouldn't have imposed the travel ban on China - which they fought against and our media called racist - the death toll in the US could be in the hundreds of thousands and ending the American revival / making room for a Chinese century
We came that close to losing it all and China did everything they could - from suppressing information to spreading malfunctioning test kits - to make it worse on Europe and the US
I believe we are deep in the cold war and it's getting much much warmer soon
The mountain is only closed for defcon 1-3. I'm not surprised. I feel for the family's. The military has other remote C3 locations and bet anything they are up and running. The Russians are probably doing exactly the same things.
When the definitive history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, the date 20 January 2020 is certain to feature prominently. It was on that day that a 35-year-old man in Washington state, recently returned from visiting family in Wuhan in China, became the first person in the US to be diagnosed with the virus.
On the very same day, 5,000 miles away in Asia, the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was reported in South Korea. The confluence was striking, but there the similarities ended.
In the two months since that fateful day, the responses to coronavirus displayed by the US and South Korea have been polar opposites.
One country acted swiftly and aggressively to detect and isolate the virus, and by doing so has largely contained the crisis. The other country dithered and procrastinated, became mired in chaos and confusion, was distracted by the individual whims of its leader, and is now confronted by a health emergency of daunting proportions.
Within a week of its first confirmed case, South Korea’s disease control agency had summoned 20 private companies to the medical equivalent of a war-planning summit and told them to develop a test for the virus at lightning speed. A week after that, the first diagnostic test was approved and went into battle, identifying infected individuals who could then be quarantined to halt the advance of the disease.
Some 357,896 tests later, the country has more or less won the coronavirus war. On Friday only 91 new cases were reported in a country of more than 50 million.
The US response tells a different story. Two days after the first diagnosis in Washington state, Donald Trump went on air on CNBC and bragged: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
‘A fiasco of incredible proportions’
A week after that, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion article by two former top health policy officials within the Trump administration under the headline Act Now to Prevent an American Epidemic. Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb laid out a menu of what had to be done instantly to avert a massive health disaster.
Top of their to-do list: work with private industry to develop an “easy-to-use, rapid diagnostic test” – in other words, just what South Korea was doing.
It was not until 29 February, more than a month after the Journal article and almost six weeks after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country that the Trump administration put that advice into practice. Laboratories and hospitals would finally be allowed to conduct their own Covid-19 tests to speed up the process.
Those missing four to six weeks are likely to go down in the definitive history as a cautionary tale of the potentially devastating consequences of failed political leadership. Today, 86,012 cases have been confirmed across the US, pushing the nation to the top of the world’s coronavirus league table – above even China.
When the definitive history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, the date 20 January 2020 is certain to feature prominently. It was on that day that a 35-year-old man in Washington state, recently returned from visiting family in Wuhan in China, became the first person in the US to be diagnosed with the virus.
On the very same day, 5,000 miles away in Asia, the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was reported in South Korea. The confluence was striking, but there the similarities ended.
In the two months since that fateful day, the responses to coronavirus displayed by the US and South Korea have been polar opposites.
One country acted swiftly and aggressively to detect and isolate the virus, and by doing so has largely contained the crisis. The other country dithered and procrastinated, became mired in chaos and confusion, was distracted by the individual whims of its leader, and is now confronted by a health emergency of daunting proportions.
Within a week of its first confirmed case, South Korea’s disease control agency had summoned 20 private companies to the medical equivalent of a war-planning summit and told them to develop a test for the virus at lightning speed. A week after that, the first diagnostic test was approved and went into battle, identifying infected individuals who could then be quarantined to halt the advance of the disease.
Some 357,896 tests later, the country has more or less won the coronavirus war. On Friday only 91 new cases were reported in a country of more than 50 million.
The US response tells a different story. Two days after the first diagnosis in Washington state, Donald Trump went on air on CNBC and bragged: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
‘A fiasco of incredible proportions’
A week after that, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion article by two former top health policy officials within the Trump administration under the headline Act Now to Prevent an American Epidemic. Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb laid out a menu of what had to be done instantly to avert a massive health disaster.
Top of their to-do list: work with private industry to develop an “easy-to-use, rapid diagnostic test” – in other words, just what South Korea was doing.
It was not until 29 February, more than a month after the Journal article and almost six weeks after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country that the Trump administration put that advice into practice. Laboratories and hospitals would finally be allowed to conduct their own Covid-19 tests to speed up the process.
Those missing four to six weeks are likely to go down in the definitive history as a cautionary tale of the potentially devastating consequences of failed political leadership. Today, 86,012 cases have been confirmed across the US, pushing the nation to the top of the world’s coronavirus league table – above even China.
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