How come we can stockpile nuclear bombs and guns and bullets but not respirators, masks, gowns or

[Solomon]

medical supplies? Aren't pandemics as much of a threat or more as war?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Because killing is more important than saving lives.

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]

2. Easy - the military contractors rule

National security is about giving them trillions

[handmade34]

3. good questions... Bill Gates warned

[Newest Reality]

4. Well,

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.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

Plus the other MIC, the medical industrial complex. They get their cut from the government and out of our paychecks a second time.

[CrispyQ]

5. Good question to all those "pro-life" hypocrites.

[marble falls]

7. Things that make one go "Hmmmmmmm ....".

[crickets]

8. Great question. K&R for the post and the discussion.

[Initech]

9. It's easier to kill people than to keep them alive.