[TheRealThing]

^^Further. Also saw today where the current shortage of M95 masks, Hazmat suits, ventilators and other medical equipment associated with treatment of the pandemic scope, actually dates all the way back to the days when such items were used up in 2009 during the swine flu pandemic. In other words where at one time the US medical system was ready for such an instance of a wide spread highly contagious bug. In Obama's oversight in a like matter over which he was responsible, nobody saw to it that those items were replenished. Typical business as usual at the hand of the last administration. But who's actually catching nine kinds for the shortage? Why MR Trump of course.

Hospitals and the medical community at large having been forced to follow Mr Obama's not-so-sage guidance on the operation of same, have not been faring so well it seems. Because even though the media have not reported on the matter, the sudden appearance of the coronavirus has revealed to all the fact that the US hospital system was before it's coming, already stressed. And it all stems back to those days when the fundamental transformation first started making unreasonable demands on the medical community. Nothing of this world is free after all. Imagine that, Milton Freedman's "There is no free lunch" declaration still stands. And not that an abundance of masks and such would have by itself stopped the pandemic, but we do nonetheless, pay now or we pay later. A fact which is inescapable.