Disease

35. PUBLIC HEALTH & PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

America should be prepared before the next pandemic.

Maintain:

• Medical stockpiles

• Domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing

• Testing capability

• Disease surveillance

• Hospital surge capacity

• Emergency logistics

• Transparent public-health data

Government should clearly distinguish among:

• Dying from a disease

• Dying with a disease

• Cases where causation is uncertain

Public reporting methodologies should be transparent and independently reviewable.

Political incentives should never determine medical statistics.

36. NEVER AGAIN — EMERGENCY POWER REFORM

The extraordinary governmental powers exercised during COVID demonstrated how quickly an emergency can affect nearly every aspect of American life.

MPA supports permanent safeguards so no president, governor, mayor, or agency can maintain extraordinary restrictions indefinitely without legislative authorization and judicial review.

Major emergency restrictions should satisfy:

Evidence. Necessity. Proportionality. Defined Duration. Legislative Oversight. Judicial Review.

Government should evaluate not only the intended public-health benefit but also consequences involving:

• Education

• Employment

• Mental health

• Healthcare access

• Small businesses

• Social isolation

• Civil liberties

• Economic harm

Emergency powers should automatically expire unless affirmatively renewed through lawful democratic procedures.

An emergency does not suspend the Constitution.