Is there an argument that either NY should have had 40k ventilators on hand, or that they aren't in urgent need? This seems like literally the #1 option for de

Is there an argument that either NY should have had 40k ventilators on hand, or that they aren't in urgent need? This seems like literally the #1 option for deploying these right now to NY state. Your argument sounds like "states should prepare, but when they are unable to because of the scale, and have an urgent need, that is the only time when the federal stockpile should be utilized". Given that NY can't procure more because every state and the feds are bidding against them... isn't that why the federal stockpile exists?