Posted on 01/12/2022 12:28:08 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
"“Fifteen days to flatten curve” was all about making sure we didn’t run out of hospital beds for sick people, whether they had COVID or something else.
In the heat of those panicky early days of the pandemic, Congress passed (and President Donald Trump signed) the unprecedented $2.2 trillion-with-a-T Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES).
Among the law’s many, many very, very expensive provisions was $100,000,000,000 (that’s one million dollars, one hundred thousand times) “designed to provide an influx of money to hospitals and other health care entities responding to the coronavirus pandemic.”
That’s according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which also notes that “averages out to about $108,000 per hospital bed in the United States.”
Guess what we got for our money?
Would you believe… fewer hospital beds? Of course you would. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
We just entered year 3 of ‘15 days to flatten the curve’. When is enough enough?
All part of building the narrative for a nationalized system of hospitals as private corporations can’t manage their facilities
So American veterans and Brits, how’s that working for you?
RE: “So where did all the money go?”
I am quiet sure at least 10% to 20% of that money was spent in kickbacks & “contributions” to politicians & bureaucrats
The money was stolen and the public laughs thinking it’s government incompetence.
When what really needs to go to the scrap heap is this useless government.
Am I wrong that $100,000,000,000 is 100 billion, not 100 million?
If Trump hadn’t ordered ventilator production, the Democrats would have accused him of mass murder.
It was a no-win.
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