General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow come we can stockpile nuclear bombs and guns and bullets but not respirators, masks, gowns or
medical supplies? Aren't pandemics as much of a threat or more as war?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)Just as all the gun apologists don't give a flying fuck about how many die because of guns. Someone else's right to live is meaningless to them.
malaise
(268,997 posts)National security is about giving them trillions
handmade34
(22,756 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The MIC has decreed that a large proportion of our taxpayer dollars will go to it: Fiat MIC.
On the other hand, you CAN blow up viruses and get rid of them that way, but the collateral damage is rather large. I mean, one nuclear explosion equals a lot of instant sanitation.
So, fear, fear, fear equals weapons, guns, bombs, military, lucrative contracts, (huge) for contractors, and it's just a yellow brick road of gold for the members of the club.
The unwashed masses do reproduce, so they are expendable. Oh, that's us.
Plus the other MIC, the medical industrial complex. They get their cut from the government and out of our paychecks a second time.