"Diego.Latella" <diego.latella@isti.cnr.it> writes: [...]

3) It is useful to circulate this message from ACA https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2020-04/focus/pandemic-reveals-misplaced-pri...

Per quel che conta, mi permetto di consigliare la lettura di questo articolo che ben inquadra l'attuale emergenza in un contesto più ampio di gestione delle questioni di sicurezza nazionale (USA) e internazionale... a proposito di priorità Fornisce anche interessanti cifre che rendono bene l'idea :-) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- The U.S. stockpile of medical supplies includes 12 million medical-grade N95 masks and 30 million surgical masks, which is only about 1 percent of the 3.5 billion needed in a year to deal with a disease pandemic. At the price of $0.50 a mask, it would cost approximately $1.75 billion to build up the N95 stockpile and about $350 million a year to replace expired masks, according to a report published by The War Zone. That is less than the $3.2 billion increase above fiscal year 2020 levels that the Pentagon is seeking for its multiyear programs to sustain and rebuild the U.S. triad of nuclear-armed missiles, submarines, and bombers. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- [...] Grazie Diego. -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures