We have about 45,000 ICU beds in the US, but we'll probably need at least 200,000. We have 160,000 ventilators in the US, but we might need at least 740,000. Hospitals are designed for profitability, not for pandemic surge capacity.https://twitter.com/aaronecarroll/status/1238073187751034880 …
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Yes, because we don't live in some sort of pandemic-ridden apocalypse, we are not prepared for one. China had to rapidly build hospitals because they weren't prepared. Do you know of any place on earth that was prepared?
For decades, experts have been predicting that this sort of global pandemic would happen sooner or later. Some countries took their warnings more seriously than other countries did. None were fully prepared. We shouldn't be making excuses for our collective idiocy.
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The issue isn't strictly profitability so much as general shortsightedness, which frequently applies to bureaucrats just as well.
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The entire global system's designed to run placidly and peacefully, not to cope with shocks in either a resilient or antifragile fashion. The point of Bretton Woods is an attempt to remove volatility, at the direct expense of the ability to survive it. That will spoil its legacy
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True much like having so many of our products including medical supplies come from out of country, these should be made internally to avoid shortages from overseas shipping disruptions from any future pandemics. That’s incredibly short sighted now
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Which countries were those?https://mobile.twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1238158636431466496 …
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