Yglesias builds on some of the points I was raising yesterday and adds to them. It's distressing that the enormous bill that is BBB has seen a steady erosion in funding for pandemic defense. There are a host of reasons why we were unprepared for Covid, but there is no excuse to not be working double overtime to stop it now and prevent the next pandemic.
The languishing state of mRNA vaccines before Covid is a great example of how regulatory slowness in our public health institutions needs to be changed. It's like they are operating in a pre-computer/Internet timeline.
I would hope that some of this gets addressed in the Pentagon's budget. No one in DC objects if the military gets money.
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