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The secret U.S. stockpile meant to save us all in a bioterror attack

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There were stockpiles of supplies in Puerto Rico, too, but that didn't mean it was successfully distributed to the people who needed it.[1] Is there a secret plan for disbursing this stockpile to 300+ million Americans? If so, why wasn't that plan utilized in PR?

[1]https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/puerto-rico-fires-em...

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This story is really interesting to me.

Clearly, it’s to give people a sense of security and calmness given a potential virus outbreak. But also feels like government PR to other governments, with a message of “If you’re trying something, watch yourself.”

Not trying to insinuate propaganda or elevate conspiracy. But anyone with a security background or who worked in disaster preparedness have any insight as to why an article like this would basically reveal a bunch about our national security? Seems to break most of my understood “Rules of Operational Security”.

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Why do we still have paywalled articles on the first page?

Why not? Presumably the vast majority of HN readers can easily afford to pay for the news.

I didn’t even need to sign in to my wapo account to read this article, so presumably you’ve just hit some quota.

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This story is really interesting to me. Clearly, it’s to give people a sense of security and calmness given a potential virus outbreak. But also feels like government PR to other governments, with a message of “If you’re trying something, watch yourself.” Not trying to insinuate propaganda or elevate conspiracy. But anyone with a security background or who worked in disaster preparedness have any insight as to why an…

Everyone knows where the fire stations are. Civilian protection isn't usually secret. What's secret is the US bioweapons program.

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Why do we still have paywalled articles on the first page?

Why not? Presumably the vast majority of HN readers can easily afford to pay for the news. I didn’t even need to sign in to my wapo account to read this article, so presumably you’ve just hit some quota.

I find it irritating that Washington Post removes the url and replaces it with their homepage so that I have to go back and find the url and open it in a private tab.
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