Or it conflicts with their worldview that what we have now is the best thing possible and life cannot be better.

In 2006, the US Congress funded the integration of protective equipment to a Strategic National Stockpile: 52 million surgical masks and 104 million N95 air-filtration masks were acquired and added. During the 2009 flu pandemic, tens of millions of masks were used, but during the Obama administration strategic stocks were not “significantly restored”, neither have they been during the Trump administration

I really hope (but doubt) that this crisis will finally annihilate this terrible line of thought we've been crippled by (it feels like especially in the last four years).

It's not political to accurately describe the sheer ineptitude and corruption. It's not political to call the staggering, unacceptable lack of leadership, candor, and morality out for what it is.

It's not apolitical to turn a blind eye to it in search of profit.

Thoughts and prayers