Awesome.
This.
New diseases evolve. They always do. That's life.
No government can insure 0 people will die from a new disease. If that's the yardstick someone is running on, it's lunacy.
Practically nobody, as individuals with personal agency, even had stocked up $40 worth of supplies: gloves, masks, isopropyl alcohol, and a roll of disposable rags are all dirt cheap.
Something over 90% of people (EDIT: * 1st world countries) could have prepared for without the government's help and didn't.
Also many people in gov very publicly wanted to be less dependant on other countries, including to be better prepared if supplies gets cut off, and time and time again they were screamed at as being evil racist xenophobes.
Well, here we are.
We can easily draw a parallel with the Pyra project and some of the occasional snarky unhelpful complaints by individuals who never tried mass producing hardware, not even short runs.
I've built short production devices (*example in spoiler), I can imagine how much of a nightmare it is to make the Pyra's all custom hardware.
A miracle that it's being made by such a small team, niche market, and crazy tight budget.
It's important too if only to make sure there are still some computers & phones produced more-or-less independently from giant manufacturers locking down hardware.
