BS. If they were prepared, where did everything go? CA had lower income so they burned all the PPE and shut down hospitals?
Re:It’s Time to Build
by blarglechien on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:48PM
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I don't know about California but the same kinda shit happened in France.
In 2007 our health minister had a bad time because she orderer massive amount of tests, masks, and hydro-alcoolic solutions. It was during SRAS, and at the time for 'nothing'.
All those item were needed 3 weeks ago, but the stock were never fully replenish since. Most of those things are perishable.
WTF.
Re:It’s Time to Build
by nerfhammer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:52PM
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They scrapped it in 2011
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-27/coronavi...
FWIW CA's tax system is pro-cyclical, because they do tax the richest 1%'s more, but the result is that 1%'s don't make any capital gains in recession years so state tax revenues get obliterated during recessions.
Re:It’s Time to Build
by battery_cowboy on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:50PM
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Storing shit and maintaining it costs money.
Governments DID see this coming, both federal and state. California, at one time, was prepared for exactly this crisis. The 2008 financial crisis wiped out state budgets