COVID-19 has exposed
America’s Achilles’ heel
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed this nation’s Achilles’ heel. Though we invest more money in our military defense system than the next seven nations combined, our military defense system leaves us defenseless against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our insistence that we cannot afford health care for all while making an oversized investment in our military defense system leaves us vulnerable to disease and pandemic.
Day in and day out, our excessive investment in military systems leaves millions without preventive care and drives up the cost of health care for all of us.
When the pandemic is behind us, I pray that this nation will realize that health care for all is key to national security. Not only health care, we must redirect funds from life-destroying systems (military defense) to life-promoting systems such as health care, affordable housing, nutritious food and quality public education to achieve robust national security. We must eliminate our Achilles’ heel.
Connie Hunter
San Jose
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