> Well that tells me some of my earlier assumption are infact going to end up being correct in that your political and economic positions lean pretty close to Authoritarian Socialism vs my Libertarian Free Market views
LOL! You're funny!
> I think there was and is a better way to handle pandemics. Better than simply shutting down the entire economy, locking people in their homes, putting millions out for work, shutting permanently thousands of business, destroying Families, etc all the while expecting fiat currency printing and debt to get us through.
There could have been, but many groups without foresight worked to fuck it up. You can thank them for your stay at home order, which is now necessary and reasonable:
> Government officials and executives at rival ventilator companies said they suspected that Covidien had acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product that would undermine Covidien’s profits from its existing ventilator business.... In 2014 ... Covidien executives told officials at the biomedical research agency that they wanted to get out of the contract, according to three former federal officials. The executives complained that it was not sufficiently profitable for the company.
Not to mention the inept response and denialism at the federal level that wasted the lead time the US could have used to prepare for this pandemic, and that have continued to the present.
LOL! You're funny!
> I think there was and is a better way to handle pandemics. Better than simply shutting down the entire economy, locking people in their homes, putting millions out for work, shutting permanently thousands of business, destroying Families, etc all the while expecting fiat currency printing and debt to get us through.
There could have been, but many groups without foresight worked to fuck it up. You can thank them for your stay at home order, which is now necessary and reasonable:
How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus (https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stoc...)
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...)
> Government officials and executives at rival ventilator companies said they suspected that Covidien had acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product that would undermine Covidien’s profits from its existing ventilator business.... In 2014 ... Covidien executives told officials at the biomedical research agency that they wanted to get out of the contract, according to three former federal officials. The executives complained that it was not sufficiently profitable for the company.
Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’ (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-...)
‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...)
Not to mention the inept response and denialism at the federal level that wasted the lead time the US could have used to prepare for this pandemic, and that have continued to the present.