SmedleyButler on Nostr: https://www.usaspending.gov/disaster/covid-19 Spending on Covid19 through Q3 2023 = ...
https://www.usaspending.gov/disaster/covid-19
Spending on Covid19 through Q3 2023 = $4.6 trillion. Top spenders are Treasury, Labor, Small Business Administration. HHS (which contains CDC and NIH) is a distant fourth place with only $475 billion spent. Pensions for federal workers got $50 billion, Homeland Security $100 billion. The fundamental premise justifying all of this is that viruses exist. There is no dispute that Koch's postulates were the original test of whether a virus exists, never satisfied once.
Spending on Covid19 through Q3 2023 = $4.6 trillion. Top spenders are Treasury, Labor, Small Business Administration. HHS (which contains CDC and NIH) is a distant fourth place with only $475 billion spent. Pensions for federal workers got $50 billion, Homeland Security $100 billion. The fundamental premise justifying all of this is that viruses exist. There is no dispute that Koch's postulates were the original test of whether a virus exists, never satisfied once.