US short on coronavirus facemasks, ventilators: HHS secretary

Fox Business ^ | Feb 25, 2020 | Evie Fordham

[Black Agnes]

He should have been reading the FR coronavirus threads a month ago.

[DannyTN]

He should have. He would have known we didn’t have enough. He would have known supply lines from China needed to be replaced ASAP.

[Black Agnes]

If this is made worse here because we outsourced all our medical supplies to China...there need to be show trials of free traitors when it’s over.

[Augie]

I don’t think I’d want to use a china-made N95 mask right now.

What better way to spread sickness than to inoculate safety equipment?

Smallpox blankets anyone?

[Monkey Face]

Oh, great!! Thanks! I’ll research tomorrow because it’s my turn to sleep. Stamina and all that. Deserts me frequently! I’ll hang onto that URL and see what else I can find! The price isn’t too bad, either! Thanks again!

[glock rocks]

Rest well, Face.

Good chatting with you.

- gr

[DCBryan1]

Central AR report since I'm off today, I spent 3 hours running around town getting ready for a cub scout camp out next month. Anyways I went to Lowes, Home Depot, Drug Emporium, Walgreens, Walmart and Sams. Only Lowes had N95 mask (about 12 of them). It was quite depressing.

HOWEVER Paint stores and local mom and pop hardware stores did have a few...not much, but a few. All 3M brand.

HOme Depot and Lowes both had the P100 full face respirators for 30 or so dollars. Dunno if that is better than an N95 but they had them as well as the pink filters.

[Magnum44]

[sauropod]

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[Freedom56v2]

There is no excuse for this. There should be stockpiles of things like this.

And it’s criminal that we rely on China and India for so much of our medicine.

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It is criminal...People have tried to blow the whistle on this national security issue in the Bush and Obama regimes...Yet no one is held accountable...

[laplata]

Hopefully president Trump will do something about it. He might have brought it up while in India.