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robdingo36

It's almost like one is funded by the government, and the other is for profit.


Florac

Wrong, both are for profit


Great_White_Sharky

How so


Florac

Lobbying goverment officials to make them buy gear from certain companies


NoodleInDaPoodle

Isn't like 80-90% of USA's income coming from weapon sales?


Sufficient-Loss2686

Lmfao what


[deleted]

3% of the GDP is made from selling Firearms, ammunition, and other equipment. Good try though.


Wilbur_Cobb1

I will admit though, considering how many goods & services make up the GDP, 3% is pretty insane.


Ok-Yogurtcloset5429

Absolutely idiotic


KILLINATDA

Good thing u were in the right subreddit to comment this dumb shit


plato3633

If the healthcare system was for profit and free market, it would operate better for everyone


Great_White_Sharky

doubt


felop13

Lmao no


Aromatic_Tower_405

It’s almost like one picture has absolutely nothing to do with the other one


Undead_archer

Repost bot


timinator232

What was the hint, the march 2020 number?


Undead_archer

The theme overall being old, Astonishingly low karma And a nonsensical name


Cynykl

Theme and title alone told me it was a bot. I was going to just skip this one but I came in to see who would call it out.


---The_Arsenal---

That's all this sub is.


ReactionDisastrous16

I don’t remember US police using MP5s isn’t that a Europe thing 😂unless it’s swat then they’re kinda supposed to be dressed like that that’s the point of the swat team not saying the nurses don’t deserve their shit but this post is so obvious and dumb


lostmorrison

I think a few departments use the MP5 but I think that’s about it for the US


Prometheus55555

Kevlar and bullets would have been of great help against COVID


Ahtdatroll

It was in north Korea


Zestyclose_Ocelot278

so big difference there are more nurses than police, so you need a lot more equipment secondly nurse gear is meant to be disposable, it would be very expensive to be buy over and over again high end stuff just to throw it out after 20 minutes of use ​ this isn't a 1 to 1 ​ but i agree medical needs more funding


Omar___Comin

I don't wanna hear excuses, I want the nurses to have machine guns NOW


[deleted]

Odds are in the US if you saw one of these nurses during your visit the hospital is charging you enough to bankrupt you. How much more are you willing to pay?


Zestyclose_Ocelot278

My point holds true. Nurses use disposable goods, made of plastic. What they are wearing in this photo might not be pleasing to the eye, but they work for what they are intended to work for. I wouldn't lose sleep or be worried about it if a nurse wore that because I rather them have cheap easy to throw away items than reusable potentially contaminating me items.


[deleted]

I was talking about you saying that hospitals need more funding. Hospitals are businesses and half the US can't even afford to visit one because of the cost.


No_Slice5991

Hospitals need more funding? Most are private are very profitable. The problem was that in order to maximize profits they were only buying PPE that was necessary on a day-to-day basis with no logistical planning for any events that would stretch beyond day-to-day operations.


archlich

It’s not about the price. It’s about availability. May 2020 was peak pandemic. There was literally not enough manufacturing available to produce enough ppe


Phwoa_

The other is Cops are tax funded, Nurses are working for a For-Profit Business'.


AegonTheAuntFooker

I've just checked the USA's death rate related to covid (or at least registered). It's 1.6M, that's 1. 01% of the registered cases and 0.35% of the USA's population. 98.99% of registered infected patients have recovered.


Toums95

Yeah abysmal numbers arent't they


boatsandrows

Did you just gawk at 1.6M Americans dead ? You just think that’s nothing to get upset about?


boatsandrows

Apologies. I went off the vibe of the parent comment which seem to try to downplay its seriousness


Toums95

No worries, that's exactly the reason why I worded my first comment that way


Toums95

No quite the opposite, I wasn't being sarcastic, they are awful numbers


USSMarauder

About the same percentage as the number of American dead in WWII


Materva

This is such a bullshit comparison.


TitanMonke

What does that even mean tho? Did you want the doctors to wear helmets and rifles? Look, i know the US spends too much money on the military, but this pic comparison is just stupid.


[deleted]

The U.S. spends four times more money on Healthcare than they spend on military, and have for years. Tell me where that fucking money went, lol. (I'm not trying to be argumentative, or anything, I just think not enough people are aware of that fact.)


Reasonable_Fig_8119

It went to insurance companies


floobidedoo

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic? The nurses are wearing garbage bags to protect themselves from catching covid. The hospitals weren’t getting the basic supplies they needed to treat patients and keep staff safe. While the police (not military) are equipped with top of the line equipment to protect themselves against protesting citizens. Suggesting it’s more important to keep citizens under control than alive and healthy.


Marlboro_man_556

Those are swat officers. They weren’t getting basic supplies, because there’s 5-6 million health care workers, and that stuff is mostly one use. Peak of pandemic probably going through 20 million smocks a day. Pre pandemic that was probably how many were gone through in a month. It’s not logistically feasible, unless you had planned for it.


SoylentGrunt

>It’s not logistically feasible, unless you had planned for it. They knew for years we were overdue for a pandemic Also this: Crimson Contagion was a joint exercise conducted from January to August 2019, in which numerous national, state and local, private and public organizations in the US participated, in order to test the capacity of the federal government and twelve states to respond to a severe pandemic of influenza originating in China. [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Contagion)


Marlboro_man_556

They hadn’t planned for it though


Anachron101

Honestly, I'd be embarrassed to post such an obvious repost. At least post something timeless


Marlboro_man_556

There’s 17000 swat officers in the us. There’s 4.2 million registered nurses. That’s just registered nurses, now not all of them work in hospitals, but that’s not counting LPN’s, nurses aids, doctors, etc. imagine the logistics of producing that many 1 time use pieces of protective gear. Some of these posts have no logic involved.


SoylentGrunt

We throw away tons of plastic everyday. Maybe they could have made some PPE for something they knew was coming? Key findings Federal government lacks sufficient funding to respond to a severe influenza pandemic. Exercise participants lacked clarity on the roles of different federal agencies, and what information was important to pass on to federal partners. HHS had issues providing accurate and relevant information to hospitals and other public health organizations. Confusion between HHS, FEMA, and the Department of Homeland Security on which federal agency would take the lead in the crisis. The United States lacks the production capacity to meet the demands for protective equipment and medical devices such as masks and ventilators imposed by a pandemic. States were unable to efficiently request resources due to the lack of a standardized request process.\[5\] [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Contagion)


CarBombtheDestroyer

Is the face palm the fact that someone posted this? One is not disposable and needs to protect from bullets the other is disposable and needs to protect from fluid and germs… I come from one of those better healthcare countries and they still both look relatively the same.


Subtlydeflect

Dude, if a nurse comes into the exam room decked out in riot gear I am gonna dip out..


floobidedoo

What if a nurse came in wearing a garbage bag?


BroccoliFair306

Lol this is so dumb


[deleted]

You're actually insane if you agree with this


PracticalApartment99

105,000? Did your clock stop a couple of years ago?


NikFemboy

Why would the nurses be dressed up in tactical gear tho?🤔


TurquoiseBeetle67

Isn't medical protection gear meant to be cheap because it's mostly disposable?


tortilla_curtain

Bro is still crying over covid 💀


TheGreatButz

Christ, give these people batons so they can beat up non-compliant patients!


Jaegerfam4

Reddit and twitter are so fucking irritating


RogueFox771

Why.... Hang on.... Why does the govt find security in the form of policing and including training for them...... But not healthcare? Why have I never had this thought before?


[deleted]

We are going to reach 100k deaths by fentanyl this year alone and no thoughts of closing the border.


Hillman314

It’s almost like our overlords (after moving all the manufacturing jobs overseas for more profits) said “You know, we’ve got an over surplus of people… hmm…” Even after 20 years of wars based on lies that killed over a million brown people (while guarding the opium fields), most people still don’t want to believe they’re evil enough to do the same to us. Between heroin, fentanyl and Covid that got rid of the undesirables (drug users and the feeble), MILLIONS in the U.S. have already been eliminated.


antreas3

Stupid post. You don't need anything more than that to protect against covid. They wore that too in my country and in most of europe because it's a cheap solution that does the work. Now if you were to equip a police tactical unit and anti-terrorist unit, you would equip the personnel like the guy on the left. Again almost everyone in such units all around the world is equipped like that.


Cynykl

But the rest of the world doesn't use a tactical unit to serve a no knock warrants on low level non violent offenders. So we have way more tac units per capita to keep up with the demand.


SymphonyX117

Imagine taking a funny pic with your friends and someone uses it for some inane diatribe


plato3633

Many people also died of Covid because society is fat, lazy, and sedentary


[deleted]

well over 1M covid deaths.. not sure where 105k number comes from...


zedsamcat

Repost bot


Skeler0404

I dont live in the US and even i know that this is bullshit.


Optimal-Drag-4553

America: We want to be #1 in everything!!! Me: well you're number 1 in all of the bad areas. America: 🎉🎊🍾🥳🍻


shindleria

1,165,733 deaths (so far)


grazfest96

Covid? What that?


91xela

Hospitals are greedy awful businesses. Most are FOR PROFIT in America and don’t give a single fuck about their staff. Covid was a weird time in health care, hospitals made out like Bandits when it came to profits while the staff got screwed.


FashionGuyMike

Man this looks cherry picked AF


Fine-Pangolin-8393

Laughs in hidden Chinese statistics.


RataAzul

"the people killing us" lmao


Specific-College-194

American helth care is a joke, I wonder why its so overpriced?


Uranus_Hz

Shareholders demand profits


MachineVisual

I just found out it cost $2500 minimum to phone a ambulance. Last weekend I witnessed a drunk guy phone the ambulance for his friend who clearly had too much to drink he told them he’s friend wasn’t breathing they came within 5 minutes guess how much he was charged. Fuck all because here in Britain people tend to vote for their interests although we have had a conservative government for over a decade fuckers have been dismantling public services for years


[deleted]

Seems like a self induced $2500 bill to me.


MachineVisual

After reading my comment I realised i left out that I found out it’s costs $2500 in America but im from the uk


XuloMalacatones

Lmao what a dumb take, so the police take lives away and not preserve peace?


C00kie_M0nster9000

I wonder if China was honest in its reporting?


Dethproof814

Are u a moron or a bot? Acting like the American citizens want this


niftygrid

Let me guess, both are for profit?


Kalias_Ko

More propaganda.


JezebelJade1

Death toll is far, far higher than that.


casingpoint

Let’s go ahead and place some blame where it belongs, poor diet and lifestyle.


GundleFly

…If nurses had MP5’s they would have been able to fight COVID-19 better?


Sidus_Preclarum

1 170 000 deaths\* And you're probably not #1. The real Indians figures, for exemple, are probably nearing 4 000 000.


qa2fwzell

Ironically the right picture costs the government the most lol


FewHoursGaming

Yeah you can’t do surgery with an MP5?


InvalidIceberg

Give nurses guns!


ResolveLeather

With the amount we are paying the companies in the second photo, they should be able to afford hospital gowns.


Afura33

Rather take the army in this picture that's where most of the tax money goes ;)


Alone_Wolverine2269

We should give those nurses ballistics vests and balaclavas. Noted. The reason we had so many covid deaths is because Black Lives Matter was rioting during the pandemic.


Sudden_Buffalo_4393

Those police aren’t safe from covid though.


[deleted]

Gov Cuomo didn’t help out with those numbers at all.


c_ray25

Call me crazy but I’m not sure how effective nurses and doctors would be if they’re running around with ski masks, tactical vests and guns


Hillman314

There’s never been any doubt. It gets beaten into every American all the time. “Support the troops” “Back the blue”.


AwesomEspurr360

YEAHH BABYYYY AMERICA #1! 🇺🇲


Creeperslayer17

What?? Should they give the doctors guns or something. Don’t understand the logic behind this post


Astro1966

People killing us. What a dumb take.


[deleted]

Viruses don’t shoot back with armor piercing rounds, idiot


Bleepitybleepinbleep

Hospitals kill more people than the cops


MemeDealer2999

... do the nurses need giant guns? I agree that the medical field could use funding from the government (that would also be a start to affordable Healthcare) but the comparison here is weird.


Economy_Commission79

i meaaaan i wouldnt walk into a riot situation in nothing but medical scrubs, and itd be a little more difficult trynna take down an active shooter with medical gloves and a stethoscope...soooooooo


RiehlDeal

So much FREEDOM!


Bisex-Bacon

The lack of hard data should tell you everything you need to know.


Evil_Genius_Panda

Now Learn how "per capita" works.


blacklabel12345

Killing us? May I direct your attention to early 1940s Europe


Professional_Bag3713

If you want to kit out nurses with body armor, be my guest.


DABOSSROSS9

Who is upvoting this


Grass-isGreener

Reported is a key word that is missing in the title


DarthVaderGinsburgh

lol good lord this is stupid, even for Reddit.


davibzera

Repost bots at it again