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From my original post: Governments DID see this coming, both federal and state. California, at one time, was prepared for exactly this crisis. The 2008 financi
by covidacct 6y ago
From my original post:
Governments DID see this coming, both federal and state. California, at one time, was prepared for exactly this crisis. The 2008 financial crisis wiped out state budgets
- jtbayly 6y agoBS. If they were prepared, where did everything go? CA had lower income so they burned all the PPE and shut down hospitals?
- blarglechien 6y agoI don't know about California but the same kinda shit happened in France. In 2007 our health minister had a bad time because she orderer massive amount of tests, masks, and hydro-alcoolic solutions. It was during SRAS, and at the time for 'nothing'. All those item were needed 3 weeks ago, but the stock were never fully replenish since. Most of those things are perishable. WTF.
- battery_cowboy 6y agoStoring shit and maintaining it costs money.
- nerfhammer 6y agoThey scrapped it in 2011 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-27/coronavirus-california-mobile-hospitals-ventilators https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-27/coronavi... FWIW CA's tax system is pro-cyclical, because they do tax the richest 1%'s more, but the result is that 1%'s don't make any capital gains in recession years so state tax revenues get obliterated during recessions.
- kortilla 6y agoWell they didn’t really see it coming if they sacrificed it over everything else.