[Porsche-O-Phile]

Bingo. Storage space is square footage. A hospital is running about $800 / s.f. now for new construction. If you want to build a 5,000 sq. ft. storeroom that’s $4M right there give or take.

Even charging the obscene amounts the providers do for routine / basic supplies that’s a heck of a lot of billable use to break even. And that’s strictly capital cost.

Could they store a lot of this kind of “doomsday scenario” stuff offsite? Sure. Maybe that’s something that’ll need to be considered as a “lessons learned” from this but I’m sure there are other factors too (shelf life, stock rotation, transport costs, security, etc.) but it’s very, very expensive to keep things on site.