[bsder]

> Individuals are more ready to take risks than institutions.

> To me this was the most damning indictment of all.

Why?

One company in Texas geared up and started emergency mask production back when the original SARS/MERS hit. And it almost killed his company. He refused to wind up production for masks during Covid without cash and a contract. That's just smart business.

In the US, the Trump administration and a Republican Senate had absolutely demonstrated that it would absolutely leave people in the lurch who didn't kowtow appropriately.

That is NOT an atmosphere where you are going to bet the company on the fact that the government will do the sane thing.