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There is a difference in the government's willingness and ability to develop and stockpile: 1. essential medicines that can save lives and promote well being
by morninglight 3y ago
There is a difference in the government's willingness and ability to develop and stockpile:
1. essential medicines that can save lives and promote well being
and
2. weapons that are intended to maim and kill other humans.
In a democracy, the voters are responsible for that difference.
The WHO list of Essential Medicines is a very low bar that any advanced nation should be able to exceed. The fact that something as common as albuterol is currently in shortage, is a national disgrace.
It seems that Executive Order 13944 has had little impact.
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/reports/executive-order-13944-list-essential-medicines-medical-countermeasures-and-critical-inputs https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/reports/executive-order-13944-...
- hayst4ck 3y ago> In a democracy, the voters are responsible for that difference. Yes and no. We delegate power to representatives to mediate that difference, and they ultimately delegate it to a bureaucracy, hopefully filled by experts in a particular area. These bureaucracies are then funded proportional to the quality of voter chosen leadership. So I would say voters are responsible for choosing the level of corruption when they vote, but our votes are red or blue, we don't get any kind of say in resource distribution past that unless we are beauracracy/institution participants ourselves.