[Ret10Echo]

I'll leave the real comments and feedback from the medical professionals and logisticians.

My thought is that there are some challenges with expiration dates for stocked items and maintaining that stock of items through rotation etc.

If nothing else the current state of affairs brings to light a number of things some of which are

1. We don't "learn" from our plans (2005 - 2006 Pandemic flu planning?????)
2. The bureaucracy is not designed to respond to real world events (USDA approvals, surge medical practitioner licensing)
3. We don't make much here and have a supply chain that is dependent upon "frenemies" and politics.
4. Socialized medecine would not improve anything