The U.S. spends 760 billion military dollars a year to make sure we could fight an enemy, but this year an enemy came and we didn’t fight it at all.

Oct 16, 2020 · 11:30 AM UTC

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Just as wars are fought by coordinating a huge array of military and organizational skills, a war against Covid could have been fought by coordinating a huge array of scientific, medical, governmental and organizational skills.
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That coordination did not occur. As a result, medical personnel and first responders were left to make heroic efforts far more burdensome than they should have had to - sometimes even at the sacrifice of their own lives - because of a lack of that federal response.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Do have any ideas how many billions of dollars of federal money have gone into fighting Covid and producing economic relief to citizens?
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Really? Do you know how many millions are facing eviction & hunger now? Our Covid response has mainly been Wall Street bail out, not Main Street bailout. We’ve left doctors, nurses & first responders to do work they wouldn’t have had to do had the govt fought the disease early.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
We fought it plenty. Some of us locked ourselves and our families down wore masks, sanitized everything. Were good little citizens. Tech got rich. Small businesses failed.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
That's just the amount known to the public. The actual amount is likely 2-3X.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
We spend way too much on the military. Not only have we prioritized it over the pandemic but our infrastructure is collapsing. We’ve invested more in oil stealing regime change wars and militarizing the police than we have our country.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You should primary Schumer in NY
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I think about the disdain for scientists & experts held by many in our government & a large portion of our population. With the insults hurled at multiple respected generals publicly I suspect this to disdain in extends to military experts, certainly climate, food & water systems
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The US has pissed away so much money the only reasonable foe would be an alien invasion!!!
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