Brid Smith People Before Profit TD IT BEGGARS BELIEF that in 2020 we are witnessing a severe shortage of very basic equipment to assist health workers in the war against Covid-19.
The US produced 60,000 aircraft in 1942, 125,000 in 1943, plus 120,000 tanks and 55,000 anti-aircraft guns in the same period – and trained a vast force to use them. If they did that we absolutely could have a comprehensive, high-quality, home-based production system to fight this pandemic. We could have it here and across the world.
The state should move immediately to stop all sales of testing kits, ventilators and the like to private interests; only public health policy both nationally and internationally should be the criteria for what is distributed; not the size of anyone’s pocket.