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What is worse is that the United States had a warning system. The world depended on it. The budget for it was 800 million dollars. It was removed from the bud
by mucholove 5y ago
What is worse is that the United States had a warning system. The world depended on it.
The budget for it was 800 million dollars.
It was removed from the budget in 2018 and I believe the funding ran out September 2019.
It only took three months.
By March 2020-the administration was putting out $800 BILLION dollars.
And since then they’ve put out more.
Taiwan—which adopted the US system (and therefore was in Wuhan January 4) had no real outbreak until 2 month ago—and even then, the outbreak was contained.
Frustrating…
- jacquesm 5y agoYou tend to get the government that you deserve in a democracy.
- mucholove 5y agoI know we call the USA a democracy, but I’m becoming more of a stickler for calling it a Republic. Some of the states are a bit more Democratic than the Federal government. I wonder whether people would take the decisions more seriously if they had to vote on them as they so in Switzerland.
- jacquesm 5y agoIt probably would but (1) that requires a somewhat educated electorate and (2) it takes a while to get to the point where a system like that operates smoothly. Switzerland has had this system going back to 1848 https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/18480606/index.html https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/18480606/index.html , and at the time who got to vote was not quite the same as how it is today so the system was gradually expanded. If you were to switch overnight to referenda in say the United States the result would be mayhem.