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The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?

• jdkee 7y ago
  "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones." -Donald Rumsfeld
  • casefields 7y ago
    It was always amusing when people made fun of him for that quote.
    • flukus 7y ago
      It's not because the quote is wrong but because he was dodging a question by providing a long non-answer, he was being asked about the lack of evidence Iraq was selling WMD's to terrorist groups. Then they start a protracted war that killed hundreds of thousands based in these "unknown unknowns".
• rossdavidh 7y ago
  Oooh, I know the answer to this one: no.