'Impossible to comprehend': Stephen King on horrors of Trump and coronavirus

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[link:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/29/stephen-king-the-stand-coronavirus-trump-books|


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So the bestselling contemporary horror novelist has difficulty understanding why authorities did not see the coronavirus crisis coming, or take the necessary precautionary steps.

“Just in the last three or four weeks people are saying to me, ‘We are living in a Stephen King world,’ and boy, all I can say is I wish we weren’t,” King, who has sold an estimated 350m books worldwide, told CNN.

“This has been waiting in the wings for a long, long time. I wrote The Stand about a pandemic that wipes out most of the human race, and thank God this one isn’t that bad, but I wrote that in 1979 and ever since then this has just been waiting to happen.

“The fact that nobody really seemed prepared still mystifies me.”

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1. Ya, how come the govt wasn't prepared for biological warfare

Don't they have contingency plans for that with masks and hospital triage.

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2. Right!

Shitstain needs to go NOW! Yesterday, aactually!

[Beringia]

3. But also, you would think there have been plans made

ever since biological warfare was a threat, like for 25 years now under all the other administrations. Since taxpayer money mostly goes to military defense, that should be falling into that category.