Red Mosquito

Bi_3 wrote:No, it’s what can they do differently now.

The mayor of Seattle wanted “mass tents” from the federal government to rapidly build shelters to house people in quarantine. The state of New York pleaded for help from the Army Corps of Engineers to quickly build hospitals. Oregon’s governor repeatedly pressed the Department of Health and Human Services for hundreds of thousands of respirators, gowns and gloves, face shields or goggles.

After so many pleas, President Trump moved on Tuesday to begin enlisting much of his government in what the White House had called for weeks a “whole of government” approach to the rampaging coronavirus.

Yet despite promises of a “whole of government” effort, key agencies — like the Army Corps of Engineers, other parts of the Defense Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs — had not been asked to play much of a role.

Even after Mr. Trump committed to supporting the states on Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers said it still had not received direction from the administration.

Much of that capacity is untapped. Hospital ships are at port. The Department of Veterans Affairs, legally designated as the backup health care system in national emergencies, awaits requests for help. The veterans department has a surplus of beds in many of its 172 hospital centers and a robust number of special rooms for patients with breathing disorders.

The sprawling system of emergency doctors and nurses ready to be deployed by the Department of Health and Human Services — known as the National Disaster Medical System — is also still waiting for orders, other than to staff locations where passengers offloaded from cruise ships are being quarantined.

Oregon sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on March 3 asking for 400,000 N95 masks. For days, it got no response, and only by March 14 received its first shipment, of 36,800 masks. But there was a problem. Most of the equipment they got was well past the expiration date and so “wouldn’t be suitable for surgical settings,” the state said.

dimejinky99 wrote:Fucking scumbag

dimejinky99 wrote:This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

McParadigm wrote:

Oregon sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on March 3 asking for 400,000 N95 masks. For days, it got no response, and only by March 14 received its first shipment, of 36,800 masks. But there was a problem. Most of the equipment they got was well past the expiration date and so “wouldn’t be suitable for surgical settings,” the state said.

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

dimejinky99 wrote:

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

My admittedly poorly made point was it’s now an agenda from both extremes.


But only one side is doing this.

You guys are the only ones making it a fucking agenda based battle by the way.

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

Strat wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:This breaks my mind.

This is US media. Appalling

No, this is Fox news. not US media.

My admittedly poorly made point was it’s now an agenda from both extremes.


But only one side is doing this.

You guys are the only ones making it a fucking agenda based battle by the way.

Fox News and their conservative Ilk are REALLY good at making it a partisan issue on their own then blaming the other side of making it a partisan issue. Its quite fascinating how they create a problem then blame others for said problem.

America is dumb.

tragabigzanda wrote:perhaps