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That’s an artificial limitation, not helped by the National government’s penchant for seizing State orders and stockpiles under the current administration. Wit
by SllX 6y ago
That’s an artificial limitation, not helped by the National government’s penchant for seizing State orders and stockpiles under the current administration.
Without crap like that, there’s no reason California or New York couldn’t create their own medical stockpiles. They could run their own testing regime at least as effectively as the Federal government, but the FDA actually hindered testing both by the States and private companies early on due to an old regulation based in an old law that they could not shed fast enough. States were also quick to shed regulatory barriers of their own making, which should probably remain shed after this is all over.
- tptacek 6y agoI guess the idea that all 50 states can replicate this effort effectively is something you can believe.
- SllX 6y agoYou don’t need all 50 to do it. Wyoming’s largest metro area isn’t that far from Colorado’s, and two of Missouri’s largest cities are on its East and West borders. States stockpiling or relying on Federal stockpiles or making agreements to share stockpiles is as much a choice as any other. Seeing as how the Federal stockpile was not properly maintained and refilled by either the Obama administration or the Trump administration (who could have at least checked on it) after H1N1, maybe at least one of them would manage to do a competent job of it.