We did/do have a stockpile. Started by Clinton, enhanced by Bush, 75% +/- used by Obama for H1N1, and then not restocked by Obama or Trump.
Curios - What is your stockpile like for 'the big on' in LA/CA? Just wondering since a lot of people complain about the government for not planning, but not planning them selves. Not saying you are one of those, but I am sure you know of people like that.
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Not a whole lot better here. Great fireman now, but if you set the blaze and then shine putting it out, how good a fireman are you really?
I don't think individual's greed made the PPE crisis. We were let down by our government. They did not do a proper risk analysis with mitigations, otherwise the fact that a respiratory virus could come take us by storm would have been mitigated by stockpiling PPE and equipment. I said this in other threads, but we have the biggest military in the world, missile defense systems, strategic oil reserves, cyber defense yadda yadda ... but can't stockpile a couple hundred million dollar's worth of PPE.
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