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Well, it's actually a bit worse. The citrus fruit colored autocrat in charge of the lawless kleptocracy that now rules across the pond has actually gone to great length to dismantle/sab*tage all and every facility that could have coped with pandemics:
”In the spring of 2018, the White House pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, proposing to eliminate $252 million in previously committed resources for rebuilding health systems in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. Under fire from both sides of the aisle, President Donald Trump dropped the proposal to eliminate Ebola funds a month later. But other White House efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated.”
(https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/3...ited-states-public-health-emergency-response/)
you forgot about Trillions of dollars pissed away on useless wars of the last couple of decades. we could have had both the vaccine and the drug a month ago even if some of the war money had been used to promote biomedical research.
in a year, this pandemic will blow over and nothing will change as far as where $$ are going. next time around one billion could die from another bug. the good news is that it is likely that the climate change won't get us first.