So we’re supposed to build and stockpile billions of dollars worth of stuff that we may never need and that might have decayed to nothingness by the time we need it?
Sounds pretty smart.
Reply to my neighbor: “I heard recently that ventilators are not good for much with COVID-19 except for preserving life briefly; that if it gets to that point, there is a fairly certain prospect of dying. So...are ventilators what we should have been expending massive resources on all this time, and those bastard captalists would rather see us die?”