American Pandemic response was originally a teenagers Science Project
Our shutdown and social distancing stuff came from a 2006 national science competition, sponsored by Intel Corp., in a paper paper written by a high school sophomore in Albuquerque that modeled how to stop influenza outbreaks by closing schools, etc. Below are the links to New York Times and Chicago Tribune coverage. Her dad is a computer modeler at Sandia Lab and helped her simulations. Most interesting is how the Bush administration picked it up and incorporated it into their epidemic response strategy. It is what existed when Birx and Fauci jumped on Covid. Of course, there wasn’t any assessment of collateral damage that could be caused to the economy, mental health, etc. because it was a theoretical science project paper. The lady is 28 now and won’t be interviewed (understandably) but her dad is doing interviews. This is not conspiracy theory; it’s all right there to see and read. We’re breaking new ground with our shutdown and creating the “science” such as it is. There are four categories below to pick from for your reading. (Links in the first comment)
From The NY Times:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi8ocjm48fpAhUEo54KHUYhAEUQFjABegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F04%2F22%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fsocial-distancing-coronavirus.html&usg=AOvVaw2GhvPUFoT-VpFcW1XR6EY6
2. From the hometown newspaper of the student:
https://www.abqjournal.com/1450579/social-distancing-born-in-abq-teens-science-project.html
3. From Chicago tribune:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi8ocjm48fpAhUEo54KHUYhAEUQFjADegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fcoronavirus%2Fct-nw-nyt-social-distancing-coronavirus-20200422-fmn6ottz65gz7h2bo634be3f5u-story.html&usg=AOvVaw3_yaCn-K5dQrnX2UzArdfm
4. Paper authored by Robert Glass at Sandia
http://biology.unm.edu/PIBBS/_backups/classes/readings/Sandia%20Lab%20Readings.pdf
A High School Theoretical Science Project ?
Are you Sh^&*in me ?
You can’t make this up
sheesh
Insane. YIKES!
They did social distancing back in 1918:
“Back in 1918, a strain of influenza — colloquially called the “Spanish flu” — caused the worst pandemic in centuries, killing as many as 100 million people. In the US, about 675,000 people died.
In response, states and cities across the country told people to do what we now know as social distancing. Schools, restaurants, and businesses were closed. Public gatherings were banned. People were told to isolate and quarantine. In some places, this lasted for months.”
So the girl plagerized?
Plagiarizing implies there were papers and studies already done on “social distancing” in a pandemic, that she read them and didn’t cite them. There didn’t seem to have been any publicly distributed modeling on social distancing that I am aware of at that time. So her science fair project modeling social distancing in a pandemic seems original to me.