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Like we know that destroying all insects and and global warning are not sustainable. We know we can't have 7 billion humans eating meat. We know we should let not power concentrate too much into some entities. But we keep it up.
Since we don't react unless something forces us to, I'm starting to believe we need some medium crisis to happen like the covid19 so that a bigger one won't wipe us out in the future.
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(Edit: very much a distraction. Completely sidesteps what the article is saying. Very dead cat on table. I should have been suspicious a bit earlier).
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It means that states on the east coast would have needed far more acute preparation than states on the west coast. The fact that there could be such a difference in timing implies that this should be handled at the federal level -- or all major cities must prepare to be ground zero, which sounds very inefficient.
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It's only through some super fuzzy altruistic mechanisms that such work is supported.
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This spare capacity can be maintained on the cheap.
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Force most countries to adopt freemarket, remove trade barriers, remove import and export duties (except for extreme situations like pandemic)
Right now lots of market imposes duties on import of American goods, this reduces American exports.
Some countries like India, Brazil play extremely unfair - this only helps few industrialists in these countries but overall public suffers usually as they are forced to buy substandard goods from local providers, instead of someone internationally competitive. But yes, it helps the politicians who usually get their money from those handful of those industrialists monopoly setup through import taxes.
In hyper competitive market, local producers will usually figure out the niches worth exploiting and they'll build long term advantage there rather than aiming for some generic niche where they've no competitive advantage.
This prevents countries like India or Brazil from becoming Taiwan
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A decentralized manufacturing system with distribution through regional warehouses was more resilient, if less cost effective.
Some states, California and New York among them, did create their own local stockpiles of ventilators and PPE after the bird and swine flu scares, but did away with them in the fiscal crunch after the financial meltdown.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-once-had-mobile...
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-new-york-city-emergen...