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> We keep a MASSIVE oversupply surplus for the military at all times. If that's OK, why not do that for health related issues too?

When your military isn't strong enough, you get fire, rape, pillage, death, starvation and epidemics, and people really really don't like that.




Or miscellaneous actors stepping on your oil supply lines and shipping traffic.


Most people would accept that epidemics (let alone pandemics) are bad enough on their own. Many people would say bad enough to avoid a Just In Time approach to public health.


Maybe most people would. But I've heard first hand accounts of how devastating it is to lose a war, and I'll go with that.

May I recommend "Savage Continent":

https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Continent-Europe-Aftermath-Wor...

It was so terrible I abandoned reading it.




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