October 10, 2023 – (BOSTON) We are former FDA COO, Harvard faculty, and Lockheed Martin senior executive-born experts on risk management, particularly “infectious-disease-spread” risk management and “military-related” risk management. As such, the sneak attack on Israel has raised serious concerns for us.
As emphasized in our two posts and videos earlier today, we believe Israel and the US are unprepared for a potential “Bio War Sneak Attack” stimulated by the quick degradation of the current war. We believe Israel’s attackers will perpetrate this new form of attack on Israel and the US once the attackers are all but defeated and believe they are “cornered.”
When Israel’s attackers face annihilation, they will do whatever they believe they can get away with, short of an easily traceable nuclear attack, to critically damage Israel and its people. This represents “a real and present danger” to both countries.
In recent years, there have been many things that Israel and America should have done but have not done to “prepare” themselves for a bio sneak attack and an all-out bio war.
Indeed, after the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it should have been brilliantly clear to both countries and their leaders that they were woefully unprepared for such an attack—and significantly unprotected if such an attack occurred.
We believe the likelihood of an equally devastating nuclear sneak attack and all-out war is far less than a bio sneak attack. Yet this year, both countries are spending almost all their defense budgets on nuclear attack preparation and results risk management (roughly $750B for the US).
What must both countries do immediately to prepare to protect and defend themselves?
Being by trade, FDA COO, Harvard faculty, and Lockheed Martin senior executive-born risk management experts, we believe both countries’ government and business leaders must become serious about these dangers and step up to the plate and do their jobs. It is dangerous and reckless for Americans if these leaders do not take these risks seriously and immediately do everything reasonable and practicable to protect our people.
For example, it is dangerous and reckless to:
First, not have high-quality protective masks and other critical PPE in stock in the tens of millions.
Second, not have in stock millions of gallons of disinfectant chemicals, including anti-virals.
Third, not have strategic plans in place to, when appropriate, isolate infected individuals or groups—and quarantine exposed individuals or groups.
Third, and most importantly, not have “Infectious Disease Safety Programs” with advanced and highly effective strategies, services, and digital tools in place, fully operational, and battle-tested—to keep critical infrastructures (from suppliers, to transporters, to manufacturers, to schools, to hospitals) open and productive in infectious disease crises.
© 2023 Safely2Prosperity L.L.C. and Dr. John Norris, J.D., M.B.A.
