One more reason why libertarianism is nuts

As I have said, it ' s not clear yet how serious the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak really is, because we don ' t yet know what percentage of the time it causes serious illness. Maybe the Chinese have overreacted by their draconian isolation measures, on the other hand as I have said I wouldn ' t want to be the guy who made the decision to react too conservatively. That said, if we do get a serious epidemic here, of that particular virus or anything else, we are screwed, lassoed and tattooed.Here ' s Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy:It ’s impossible to watch [the Chinese] without wondering, “What would we do? How would my government respond if this virus spread across my country?” For the United States, the answers are especially worrying because the government has intentionally rendered itself incapable. In 2018, the Tru mp administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure. In numerous phone calls and emails with key agencies across the U.S. government, the only consistent response I encountered was distressed confusion.If the United States still has a clear chain of command for pandemic response, the White House urgently needs to clarify what it is—not just for the public but for the government itself, which largely finds itself in the dark.While Congress didn ' t go along with all of the Administration ' s requests to cut public health funding, they did cut global disease fighting budg...
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