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> Until the next pandemic. We can spend hundreds of billions on national defense, but N95 mask machines for protection in a pandemic is where we draw the line?

Or we could allocate money to PPE and instead spend it on defense:

"Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/22/covid-fun...

parent uptown 6 years ago

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