I see it. Sec 2401 of the bill is related to "Testing, Contact Tracing and
Mitigation" and includes, strategies for testing and contact tracing, support for production, development and manufacture, lab capacity, grants to state and local governments, PPE for people administering the tests, grants to hire the people administering the tests, development of testing sites, mobile facilities and IT infrastructure to integrate the data. $47.8B.
Also the $25B allocated in the Paycheck Protection Program last year.
So it isn't just testing alone, as I suspected. And you are correct; I have no problem with spending that, especially compared to other "priorities" like spending $2.5T in Afghanistan over the past 20 years or our yearly defense budget. However, I do agree with you that given that spending we should not be experiencing a lack of supply at this point.
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Posted: 01/05/2022 at 9:44PM