The maddening part is that we had the capability to deal with this and the systematically destroyed it. There was a stockpile, but it was allowed to be deplete

The maddening part is that we had the capability to deal with this and the systematically destroyed it. There was a stockpile, but it was allowed to be depleted. There was a pandemic response team, but they got laid off. Hell, the Obama-Trump transition teams even wargamed this exact scenario but it wasn't taken seriously.