Posted on 09/08/2014 2:29:24 PM PDT by Kartographer
The Department of Homeland Security failed to assess the supplies it needed to deal with a potential pandemic and now has expired stockpiles including medications, 200,000 respirators and 4,184 bottles of hand sanitizers, an inspector general report showed.
The department bought 16 million surgical masks and 350,000 white coverall suits without establishing the need for them, according to its inspector general's report, which included photographs of stacks of unopened boxes piled high in a storeroom.
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Preppers’ PING!!
Ping.
Unless the pandemic is scheduled, by definition you cannot "establish the need" for supplies to deal with it.
These same exact people will stand around when a pandemic does occur and blame FEMA for not being prepared.
There is nothing in the world more expensive and inefficient than being prepared for something you hope never happens. Yet that is what our entire military is.
BTW, I sincerely doubt "white coverall suits" expire. I use em all the time. I suspect surgical masks don't either, except possibly for the elastic straps.
buy them by the ton while China is selling them for pennies per
DHS was too busy buying up hollow points and labeling constitutionalists terrorists that dealing with such a minor detail as epidemics was just not a priority.
Ebloa, just a JV pandemic.
How about Obama importing an epidemic of Enterovirus 68 to infect our kids?
Check out the comments, esp. this one:
It is suspicious for the amazingly abrupt appearance. “Fewer than 100 incidents” since the original discovery over 40 years ago, now in the last several months, at least 1000 cases. Epidemiologically, this corresponds to a host reservoir, that is immune, suddenly showing up and infecting the non immune. What has changed very quickly within the last several months? Who knows, but It truly might correspond to the numerous kids showing up on the border? Regardless of cause, the hospitals likely will not have enough ventilators to manage both this new outbreak, and the standard flu season. I’m worried.
The DHS IG is a joke.
They mostly phone it in, often come to asinine and ridiculous conclusions, and always stay away from anything that might hurt the Administration.
This one below, however, is a hoot:
http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/pr/2014/oigpr_051914.pdf
Fewer than 100 incidents since the original discovery over 40 years ago, now in the last several months, at least 1000 cases.
Let that sink in.
In June/July, there was a surge of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) at the Texas border. Thousands of them were quietly transported into the interior of the U.S. The current Enterovirus outbreak spiked in mid August. Coincident? Not likely.
Obama versus America.
Again.
Now if we could just convince them that ammunition had a shelf life...
The only thing that Homeland security wants for the public is bullets and body bags.
Most of those supplies will still be good long after the expiration date. Not that I ever expect the gov will be crossing that bridge to bring me anything. Face it, when it hits the fan, you’re on your own.
That’s a red flag if I’ve ever seen one.
The CDC is wrong for bringing American Ebola victims to the U.S.
Set up quarantine and care units in Africa. Use facilities we built with American aid if not military medical units.
But don’t bring a disease with 70%+ mortality to a new continent.
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