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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Is that the only response you have to such a mishandling of public funds?.. This is not pocket change, it's not their own private stash it's dedicated funding that has been wasted on snake oil.
How many ventilators would that have bought, how many peices of PPE?
Sorry to make an issue of your comment but excusing the govt of a gaffe like that is honestly Priti Patel level explanation.
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It's not a mishandling though, they didn't know the tests were crap until after they had them, so it was a gamble that didn't pay off. A very small gamble that seems worth the risk.
Again, the problem with ventilators and PPE is not the cost, it's how quickly it can be produced and distributed. I know there are celebrities throwing money at it and expecting that to solve the problem, because people are used to money solving problems, but in this case it really isn't about how much is being spent.
I'm obviously not mr-defend-the-government... They should have had stockpiles of things like PPE ready to go in an emergency... But they didn't, and now the problem is not how much they're willing to spend on it. It isn't there to buy.