You havent seen the pictures and comments smuggled out about that “ hospital”
Its a warehouse for the dying
No we wouldnt do that, at least without washrooms
Stop! You’re both right!
Pandemic preparedness is an aspect of what I do.
In various wargaming scenarios, the US continually fails to stop pandemics before enormous damage is done because those in charge cannot act quickly and efficiently because they must follow “the rules”.
The rules for hospital construction actually got started 70+ years ago with the Hill-Burton Act. Like any Federally-funded program, money comes with strings. As long as the money is created by debt, voting for it is popular and the rulemakers at the agencies can escalate and escalate since the cost of compliance is essentially socialized.
How we got to a $6000 aspirin tablet in a hospital (yes, it’s a metaphor) is a complicated story with plenty of blame to go around, but the construction and occupancy requirements are a significant part of it.
So.
China can build things fast, yes. The things they build are not always of the highest quality, yes. There system does afford them the opportunity to respond quickly to emergencies, yes.
And ours doesn’t. YES.
I wonder how many really died