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I desperately want to support an organization that promises to Guard Against Pandemics, because it's so vastly important. But, the only concrete "use of funds" here I see is "donating to Elizabeth Warren and Anna Eshoo" and I've read a lot of what Warrens thinks we should do, and it seems.... underwhelming? It seems like a ton of it is "giving people money to mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic" and almost nothing about preventing actual pandemics?
Given that it seems pretty obvious (now) that comprehensive test/trace/isol...
I've read a lot of what Warrens thinks we should do, and it seems.... underwhelming? It seems like a ton of it is "giving people money to mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic" and almost nothing about preventing actual pandemics?
Indeed, she said she was opposed to the US paying more for vaccines, and supported IP expropriation, both of which reduce the incentives to invest in vaccines for next time.
Definitely - she is very much a "when you have a hammer, all problems look like nails" and her hammer is named "trillions of dollars and nice-sounding government agencies." And moreover, I think her error there is part of a wider issue, where we did see the current pandemic as a nail and tried mightily to hammer it with trillions of dollars and government agencies with Control Diseases in the title. But she doesn't necessarily understand that the CDC and FDA, rather than "underfunded and therefore unable to combat the pandemic, therefore we can... (read more)