Are any of you guys even paying attention to the daily Presidential briefings on this subject?
A whole team of many competent people are working their asses off day and night to adapt private factories all around the country and world to produce ppe and ventilators. Like RT said, those ventilators are somewhere around 40 - 50 grans apiece. There is a good reason they are not stockpiled by the thousands. As RT said even if such a foolish waste of money were appropriated, they would likely be obsolete before they were ever needed. Governors and private hospitals could have their own stockpiles. No one did. The fact that it is a worldwide pandemic has put further stress on the supply. Throw in the fact that China undoubtedly made a lot of this stuff and you have a major lack of supply in black swan times (correct PF).
Hell, Cuomo was offered this stuff in 2015 and he declined it.
If you are paying attention you would see that the team assembled is doing everything possible to ramp up supply. As PF said, they just threw 2.2 trill at this. Money is clearly not the problem. Supply is. And before you blame this President, as he says "the shelves were bare when he took over".
Pay attention to the daily briefings. You'll learn a lot and you will be hard pressed to criticize. These people are smart. Their private sector partners are smart. And they are all working their ballinis off to solve this problem.
You should listen to mayors or governors or healthcare workers who are saying things like we have an order for a million masks, checks cut and then they get sent to a different bidder or we need 50,000 masks a week at our hospital and we currently have 5,000 and are reusing them or making masks which arent as effective as the real ones. What would you say to them? That cant be true because Trump said in his news conference masks were sent and everything is going like clockwork.....oh wait and he starts that statement with talking about something that happened 60 days ago. Trump doesnt have a history of telling the truth. Dont drink the kool aid.
The feds need to coordinate purchase all the most important medical supplies. Not have cities and states and other countries competing to get the supplies.
Minnesota has a billion dollar surplus. 3M has its headquarters in Minnesota and makes the mask. I dont want Minnesota to get them because we have money and connections and someplace like New Orleans that needs them bad right now doesnt get them.
Can anyone give any credible data on how many new manufacturers of mask, shields or ventilators have been produced and delivered to a state or the federal government? Trump never answer that question. He says a million masks were delivered. That may sound good.....but if the demand was for 50 million....sounds like you are doing a terrible job.
Is there any credible data of any new industry that is now making and delivering 1 ventilator that wasn't making them 60 days ago? Trump talks about it. Give data and information about GM and others making them. Dont say we are talking to them. That isnt worth shit. If it is going to be 60 days say 60 days. If you dont know say that you do know. I have said this more than once it cost nothing to tell the truth and the American people deserve that.
Dyson designed a new one in 10 days and is now working to produce them for the UK. Bet it will still be weeks before the first one is delivered. But if we would have done something 30 or 60 days ago....we would be in a much better place than we are today.
