Posted on 03/26/2020 8:43:13 PM PDT by rktman
Perhaps the US didn’t have and could not get these supplies because China bought out supplies globally and shipped millions of these items back to their country during their peak.
Perhaps the plastic bands can dry rot. But in a jam, that can be fixed.
Dear Allahpudit;
Trump is the only leader the US has right now. He is the only one thinking weeks and months ahead not 1 day at a time. We need to think beyond containing the Virus and make sure the US Economy survives it.
The number of critical cases is 5%. The total number of US Cases is about 85,000. total US population is about 331,000,.000. We cannot destroy the US, and the Worlds, economy out of panic and fear.
There has to start being some rational thoughtful cost benefit analysis. This “fear” mindset we developed over the last few decades needs to be fixed. We throw ourselves into a panic and demand “Government Do SOMETHING” just about weekly over some “crisis” without ever thinking through the costs and problems the “solution” creates. This response to the Virus is the best example
People have to deal with the world as it is right now, not as they wish it would work. There is NOTHING any human can do to make you 100% safe. We need to stop thinking it can be made so.
The US Economy cannot be locked for months without triggering a 2nd Great Depression.
Corporations employ tend of millions of people. Corporations are everything from your local privately own gas station down the street to massive operations like Ford or Delta Airlines.
Corporations have debt they have to play just like people. For example, When they build a new store or plant, they borrow money to finance the capital expense. In addition, they do not usually pay cash for daily supply delivers. Those are purchased are made on credit with 15-30-45-60 days to make payment. All those debt payments still have to be made even thought the Government shut them down or put a lock down on their customers.
Here is an example. I work for a Food Manufacturing corporation that employs about 5,000 people nation wide. Due to the loss of business from the slow down, they just cut all Executive and Sr Management salaries 20%. If this goes one 2 more weeks, they will cut middle management salaries, if it goes on a month they have to cut all salaries. After that they start laying off worker bees like me and shutting down production lines. Why? Because they have to have the money to make their debt payments now and hope they can make it up to employees later.
We are lucky. We are considered an “Essential Business” so we are not shut down like the Airlines or the Car companies. The US, and the World, are on the brink of a financial crisis like nothing seen since the 1929.
Those credit bills have to be paid even if businesses are shut down by Government order. The people supplying them need to be paid so they can pay their creditor and so on and so on.
If they are not paid, this will trigger a cascading financial default on scale with what happened in 1929. We not talking about just crashing our economy here, we talking trashing the worlds economy if this is not addressed
The US has to be getting back to work in weeks, not months like the hysteric liars in the professional political class, and their shameless toadies in the Fake News, are trying to convince you.
PS: Since you are too gutless to allow responses on your website, I will publish this everywhere else instead.
It is past time for you and the rest of the scum bag poseurs to put your mindless political bigotry and hysteric rabid knee jerk ignorance in quarantine. It time to pry open your pathetic welded shut minds and start thinking like a supposedly rational adults instead of pathetic stooges for once in your wasted careers. Put a sock in it for 30 days. When this is over you all can go back to being your usual asinine clown selves.
Indeed, they do rot (the elastic bands). Spraying a mask and reusing it as was suggested by this moron does nothing, the masks are disposable because the media gets clogged with particulate matter and can’t be breathed through. At that point the mask is ineffective because with every exhale the mask’s seal to the face is broken.
“We’re governed by a nationalist strongman whose battle plan against the virus seems to be to give everyone some hydroxychloroquine “
Oh shut up.
Go write for the National review and take one of their cruises.
This disgusts me. Our son works as an EMT in an ER. He is exhausted and continually exposed to whatever infects the patients coming in the doors. He gets a simple surgical mask to wear - one - for a 12 hour shift. No gowns. The doctors don’t spend a lot of time with the patients, but usually wear protective gear. Some of the nurses do too, but don’t have many changes during the day. If he changed out his mask for each of the 40 or so patients he helps every day, he’d look like a selfish jerk. If the whole team did it, they’d run the ER out of protective gear in a day. There just isn’t enough, so he lives every day with the knowledge that he’s completely exposed. I just pray that he has the youth and immune function to get through it OK. So far he hasn’t felt sick - at least that’s what he says. He says they aren’t seeing massive volumes of sick people, just a steady stream of people who should be in isolation. It’s a lot of work and when individuals or organizations tie up supplies of protective equipment, the entire ER staff is unfairly exposed to infection. Despicable.
We’re governed by a nationalist strongman whose battle plan against the virus seems to be to give everyone some hydroxychloroquine and tell them to get back to work...
Bro that’s how you feel about our president????
I don’t.
Why do we still post hotair here when it is so VIRULENTLY anti POTUS Trump???
Hotair used to be one of my go-to sites, but since Michelle Malkin phased out, its been tough to read, it sounds like it being written soley from inside the bubble, and Allahpundit’s garbage has just about driven me from the site completely.
Can’t AG Barr have the FBI bust them for hoarding?
So, what's the N100 mask if the N95 is the "gold standard"?
#lousyjournalist
I have some that have been in my garage since the obunghole 2009 epidemic and the elastic is still good.
Actually strung up by something lower down, which is great for an operatic career as a countertenor
I had the same thought.
Michelle Malkin sold HotAir ten years ago. It is now owned by pseudo-conservative media empire Salem Communications.
Soon after Michelle Malkin left, the site started going downhill, and a few years later there was a mass exodus of the old, steadfast conservative and fairly smart ‘commentariat’ as the site owners and operators pulled it further and further left. (Kind of Like Faux News) The main contributors, AP and Ed Morrissey are both vile NeverTrumpers. (Jazz Shaw is the only one of the old bunch that is still readable.)
The platinum standard?
He should pay them by fast & fair executions. Hanging works well.
Show that on the 6 o'clock news and they remaining union leaders would get a whole new attitude about the value of being civic-minded.
I just sold my two boxes to a customer for $1.25/mask. Of course, I bought them for $0.80. That covered delivery. I don’t like doing things for free, but not a gouger.
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