California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpile but dismantled them

Re:California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpil... by twblalock on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:59PM (#22716267)

> Making small investments for the future is what economics is all about.

This isn't economics. It's politics.

How could you sell something like pandemic preparedness in 2011? How could you present a long-term picture, knowing what was known in 2011, and argue that such a thing was a budget priority compared to jobs and social services?

I can't imagine that any politician in 2011 would have been taken seriously when talking about pandemic preparedness, given the context of the massive recession that we were still climbing out of.

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Re:California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpil... by ipqk on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:23AM (#22716392)

Maybe by mentioning the swine flu pandemic that had just happened in 2009? Californians live in earthquake country – they understand preparing for cataclysmic event in the medium-to-far future.

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Re:California once had mobile hospitals, ventilator stockpil... by selimthegrim on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:20AM (#22716377)

This is Governor Moonbeam here. Remember what he was selling in the seventies? He could have run with it.

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