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Travel Fails With Coordinated Response on Covid: Retired Green Berets Commander

Matthew Parsons

Photo Credit: Airmen assigned to the 10th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight unload a litter with a simulated patient from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during training at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Jan. 26, 2021. Flickr / Airman Magazine/Daniel Sanchez

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A highly decorated U.S Army veteran has voiced what a lot of people are thinking: How did we all make such a mess of reacting to the pandemic?

A retired Special Forces commander has delivered a scathing attack on the global response to coronavirus, calling out the U.S. in particular, and urged the travel industry to think twice about using the term “duty of care” in the future. Online travel conferences usually bring in expert speakers from outside the industry; epidemiologists tend to talk at a lot of them currently, but technology company Deem parachuted Dale Buckner in for its Miles Ahead event. His main gripe was the lack of a coordinated policy to stem the transmission of Covid-19, not only in the U.S. with the main carriers putting different hygiene standards in place, but across the globe, with governments failing to support them.

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“All of the airlines, and all of the hotels in the travel industry, have been fending for themselves,” said Buckner, who served in the army for 24 years, including 13 years in the Special Forces Green Berets, and

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