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Yes, the US government is uniquely corrupt/evil/incompetent so let's just write them off. Not to worry, I'm sure Germany, UK, France, Russia, Taiwan, Italy, No
by Consultant32452 6y ago
Yes, the US government is uniquely corrupt/evil/incompetent so let's just write them off. Not to worry, I'm sure Germany, UK, France, Russia, Taiwan, Italy, Norway, etc. have all ramped up capacity massively and our hospitals can just order from them. Right?
- AniseAbyss 6y agoUnfortunately not. And its not the free market or capitalism making countries react chaotically and incompetently. Its democracy. When the dear leader in the Forbidden City tells companies to shift production it will happen. When a president or prime minister wants to do anything he has to go through channels- including an army of lawyers.
- pjc50 6y agoThe UK has definitely suffered exactly the same problem. We still don't have even a track and trace app and testing is patchy.
- jonplackett 6y agoI believe we (somehow??) spent 11 million quid on that app, which does not even work. https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/06/nhs-contact-tracing-app-cost/ https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/06/nhs-contact-tracing-ap... Plus we haven't even bothered to adopt Apple's version. When you try to turn that on it says it's not been enabled by your local health authority.
- pintxo 6y agoGermany was actually planning to give away masks for free to other countries as they seemingly ordered too much. And before they are aging past their best-used-by date in storage, better give them away.