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Then why will it only take 3 months and 2 companies to make 40,000 when a normal hospital has 5. How can people possibly defend any system that is going to let

Then why will it only take 3 months and 2 companies to make 40,000 when a normal hospital has 5. How can people possibly defend any system that is going to let, in their words, hundreds of thousands of people die, when x% of them could have been saved if money had been spent on equipment instead of buybacks and admin salaries.

alkonaut 7y ago
> How can people possibly defend any system People vote for politicians who allocate funds to the healthcare systems (generally). Either people don't expect the disaster to strike, or they are more interested in the lower taxes you can have if you don't prepare for peak demand. I suspect it's a consequence of both. Any politician who says "When I'm in power, I'll raise taxes 10% to fund preparedness for a disaster that comes every 100 years", will not see office. Short sightedness isn't the same as evil. Humans are bad at imagining worse case scenarios and good at optimizing for short term goals. This is the same in industry. Companies now suffer because they optimized for efficiency not resiliency. Where are the companies that optimized for resiliency so they now continue production becuase they had larger stocks of parts, parts sourced from multiple locations etc? The answer: They are dead because they were out competed by companies who could undercut their prices because they order all their parts from China and keep only 1 day worth of production in their parts warehouse.