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BS. If they were prepared, where did everything go? CA had lower income so they burned all the PPE and shut down hospitals?
by jtbayly 7y ago
BS. If they were prepared, where did everything go? CA had lower income so they burned all the PPE and shut down hospitals?
- blarglechien 7y 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 7y agoStoring shit and maintaining it costs money.
- nerfhammer 7y 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.