Well for all our money, the largest donor country on the planet, they aided and abetted the Chinese in their coverup and continue doing so to this day by heaping praise on them and holding them up as a shining example to the rest of the world in how they handled this outbreak.
Time mainly but also because nobody in DC is goign to have a clue what your needs are locally or at the state level anywhere nearly as well as your local and state Disaster Planners and responders.
We have 50 states for a reason instead of 50 Federal Districts or Regions.
If only there was some global communications network that existed where localities and States could communicate with each other in order to relay what their needs would be and the timescale that they would be needed and then if only there was a national transportation network onto which those materials could be distributed through a supply chain. But we couldn’t have that. That would probably take like a special tax to ensure communications into the more rural parts of the country and probably years of building roads and bridges and a global communications network where one day maybe people could communicate quickly and easily using video along a series of pipes or webs or something…we will figure out the name later… that would never exist because government could never come up with something like that…
CDC was working with the states and local hospitals from the beginning.
They met with governors on Feb 9 to discuss the problem and what would be needed.
They met with hospitals in early February to discuss an inventory of equipment that might be needed and what was available. VOX didn’t tell you that?