> preparedness and what seems like a lack lustre
> approach from fire-fighters.
The US has an incredible ability to both gut its public services and pretend that they are simultaneously world class and so bloated as to be in serious need of gutting. The result is what we are seeing now: when a service is urgently needed, it is no longer there. We actually saw the same thing with Covid: I recall a printed, highly colourful 'Which nation will cope best with a pandemic?' graphic provided by, I think, Forbes, which placed the US in 'USA is number one, yaay!' position. And its response in reality was every bit as bad as was ours -- for the same reason: the neoliberal destruction of everything important.
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