California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpile but dismantled them

Re:California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpil... by joe_the_user on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:30PM (#22716140)

I remember those budget cuts. As far as I could tell, the state engaged in efforts to make the most damaging cuts possible in every department while leaving pet construction projects and similar things alone (cutting state parks really hard for example).

I think it's combination of wanting to demonstrate the seriousness of the problem combined with cutting projects that don't have constituancy.

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Re:California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpil... by ip26 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:04AM (#22716574)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome

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Re:California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpil... by selimthegrim on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:18AM (#22716370)

I was at UCSB at the time and I remember incensed undergrads camping out in the public spaces for weeks.

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Re:California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpil... by scruple on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:30AM (#22716429)

Yep, you just jogged my memory. I was living and working in Goleta at the time and I definitely recall seeing those folks every time I went to campus and even IV of the course of a few weeks.

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