Damo you are aware that meds have expiration dates right?
They would have to store the meds EVERWHERE in the nation to have it work correctly.
It would be an ongoing endevor.
I am aware that meds have expiration. Most pandemic preparation would take the creation of testing at the point of pandemic discovery and vaccinations must be created at that time too. While storage of anti-retroviral medications could be minimally stimulating it is not a measure that needs to be in an emergency stimulus bill because it is not stimulating enough, nor long-term enough. Once measures are in place, this would become a short-term, minimally stimulating event and not something that should be included in an emergency stimulus bill.
It should be included in an emergency preparedness bill or the regular budget, but not as a stimulus and included in something like this. Especially when such planning takes more than the stimulus bill ever had within it to create the checks necessary when creating new government bureaucracy.
Nobody wants our "Pandemic Preparation" to be as whipsaw, and created as a secondary emergency measure stuffed under the radar and therefore not carefully thought out, as this was. There is no reason to take something that important and stuff it under the radar, and create it without careful consideration.
Something like this should never be included in something like the emergency stimulus package, but it should be separate, it should be well thought out, reasoned, and considered so that it can be effectively managed towards the actual goal of emergency preparedness.
