If any nation on the face of the Earth could be considered to have been prepared for a pandemic, it is the USA. By 2019, the USA was spending more than 7 times the world average amount per person on healthcare:
With so much spending per person, supply chains for healthcare in the USA would be the most elaborate, increasing the ability to adapt to negative shocks like pandemics.
But when the USA gets compared to the world in terms of preventing deaths, the world wins (excess death in the USA was more than 100% higher than the world average):
At an average of less than one-seventh of the healthcare spending per person, the world did much better than the USA at keeping people alive. One reason for that could be that the US government spends too much of its own budget on healthcare, compared to the world average:
Over 20 cents of every dollar spent by the U.S. government is spent on healthcare, something that is not even constitutional (no defined role for federal government in healthcare), but only just over 10 cents of every dollar spent by the average government of the world is spent on healthcare.
The U.S. government spends much more on healthcare than comparable nations do:
When the government is spending 14% of GDP on healthcare, then the entire healthcare systems loses resilience to shocks, and top-down bureaucratic foibles can turn crises into catastrophes, like what happened in COVID.
The evidence suggests that having many healthcare resources under the control of health officials leads to negative outcomes (more deaths). Using total resource control as a metric for pandemic preparedness, another way to say this is that pandemic preparedness is the problem — not the solution.
British epidemiologist, Edgar Hope-Simpson, discovered that influenza can be everywhere and nowhere all at once. This would make for an apparent contradiction which is only resolved when you realize that flu seasons are not really flu seasons, but they are “vitamin D deficiency” seasons, instead.
Because both money and power can be drawn from schemes which purport to make the world safe from pandemics, the true nature of epidemics — that they are mostly just seasonal vitamin deficiencies (that flu is only an “opportunistic infection”) — has been obscured by government officials who do not want the public to know the truth.
By pretending to be protectors, government has kept people from understanding how they could have been preventing seasonal illness all along — and it has been very lucrative for the cronies of the government, such as vaccine firms.
Reference
[flu seasons are actually seasons of relative vitamin D deficiency; not seasons where disease is being caused by a virus alone] — Cannell JJ, Zasloff M, Garland CF, Scragg R, Giovannucci E. On the epidemiology of influenza. Virol J. 2008 Feb 25;5:29. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-5-29. PMID: 18298852; PMCID: PMC2279112. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2279112/
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