Once you go down this analysis rabbit hole, I believe the rational conclusion is to "stockpile" manufacturing capacity by keeping manufacturing under physical d

Once you go down this analysis rabbit hole, I believe the rational conclusion is to "stockpile" manufacturing capacity by keeping manufacturing under physical domestic control. Otherwise you're always fighting the last war. Today it is a respiratory-oriented weakness in our supply chain. Tomorrow it could be fungal spores; do we have enough domestic manufacturing capacity to create fungicides at pandemic scale? Another mitigation option is standardized international cooperation and automated data interchange on international acute public health matters when an issue rises to just the regional level. Improving the level of integrated data sharing in this age of data mining would accelerate research and development of responses. I was hopeful that a standardized data representation format already existed, and highly-granular patient data from around the world would be available to the entire public (not just institutions) to sift through. Instead, we're still exchanging data through papers. The source code and raw data of models or clinical trial analyses are not published. We do have genome sequences available publicly, which helps, though.