What a bizarre position. This distributed approach to the emergency health of nations hasn't worked out well in the current situation.
I can't see how it would suddenly start working better in the future under our current economic system either. Everything is set up under economic pressures such that inefficiencies are ruthlessly exposed and eliminated.
This maybe works out OK for creating new generations of electronic gizmos but it is catastrophically fragile for things like PPE as described in the article.
To avoid something like this in the future, the only options I can see are more government control or rethink how economic systems work.
I don't see how it's bizarre to recognize what the US Constitution says.
> This distributed approach to the emergency health of nations hasn't worked out well in the current situation.
In the US at least, what hasn't worked is waiting for centralized authorities to tell people what to do, instead of just doing obvious common sense things like social distancing and wearing masks. Not to mention allowing the FDA to prevent state and local health authorities from taking obvious common sense measures to develop tests, either on their own or in cooperation with private labs, when it was clear that the FDA and CDC didn't have tests ready.
> more government control
Would be a bad idea, since the more centralized authority controls things, the worse the consequences are when the centralized authority makes a mistake.
> rethink how economic systems work
What you call the "catastrophically fragile" economic system is a product of government control. So again more government control seems like a bad idea.
No, it isn't. It's everybody's job. The government is a tool we use to delegate certain aspects of that job--and often it's a very bad tool to use and we should be relying on it less, not more. The idea that "it's the government's job" to do things causes all kinds of problems, because people think they can just let the government take care of it and not have to worry about it any more. You can't do that. Ultimately it is we, the people, who are responsible.