Posted on 04/02/2020 8:34:25 PM PDT by Revel
The head of Florida's Division of Emergency Management has accused U.S. mask manufacturer 3M of shipping the critical protective equipment to foreign countries who outbid U.S. buyers -- even as hospitals and state officials desperately scramble to secure N95 protective masks for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jared Moskowitz told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday that he discovered that 3M distributors were prioritizing foreign buyers after they refused to sell him the essential equipment.
"For the last several weeks, we have had a boiler room chasing down 3M authorized distributors [and] brokers representing that they sell the N95 masks, only get to warehouses that are completely empty," Moskowitz said. "[We are] being told that our shipments are on cargo planes and the flights don't even appear. We are chasing ghosts. I just decided to turn up the heat and tell people what is actually happening in the N95 mask space."
Moskowitz claimed to have reached out to many 3M authorized distributors in the United States to confirm his suspicions, and said he was shocked to find American companies quietly partnering with foreign buyers at a time of national crisis.
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Iranian. Why the hell would she care what happens to Americans?
Yes my Fuhrer , are you sure the gas ovens aren’t easier?
When were these contracts signed? When were the shipments put into the supply chain? One day? I doubt it.
I see no facts in these articles, just supposition.
None of this is true.
She looks like a dozen other European Defense Ministers look like- clueless, feminine, wet behind the ears, and unintimidating.
Disclaimer: I don’t have anything constructive to add to the thread. I’m just spouting off the first thing that came to my mind. A freeper’s mind though, I might add.
“What” is not true? A little context please.
Trump should tell 3M that the ‘My Pillow’ guy is now the new CEO of 3M.
Nice look!
They used N95 masks for another pandemic in 2014. 85 million of them. They made the decision not to restock. Things are ALWAYS more expensive and harder to get in an emergency. Planning is important. Cuomo decided to NOT buy respirators and use death panels instead. Was that in 2015? Ray Nagin had an emergency evac plan for Hurricane Katrina, and delayed the implementation until the busses were underwater, and the drivers at their own safe places. Those things need managers, not spineless politicians.
DK
In Europe there are reports of the US doing the same, France is also named doing this. Maybe everyone is doing this everywere.
shameful....
Minnesota Mining and Moneygrubbing
“Defense production act.”
DPA is a common acronym — like FBI. Not really jargon.
“Navarro was fantastic today at the WH presser!”
He WAS great. And I liked how Mnuchin went to the podium loaded for bear. The first “gotcha” question from a press critter and Mnuchin was ready to rip off the guy’s/gal’s head. That’s how all of them need to be.
3M = Mingguang Mining and Manufacturing?
The packaging for the 3M masks that I have on hand say they are made in the USA from “globally sourced” materials.
3M knew full well what was going on through their supply chains. Could and should have stopped it themselves, or via the government.
And it isn’t a matter of them buying right then, but that the foreign companies were paying cash. Yes, you could look to the state and hospital purchasing moving to cash, but that would be a big, big move.
3M is indeed responsible.
Look at the CEO’s interview with Maria B. He uses all kinds of weasel words talking about making sure they are getting the masks to where they are needed—but never says in the US.
Here’s lawyered up disinformation from them making it sound as if they were doing the opposite of what they were doing: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3ms-collaboration-covid-19-supply-challenges-price-gouging-mike-roman-1e/?trackingId=%2FGfj2fhPTC%2By4swVziD6Nw%3D%3D
Back in the early 1990's I was told by an insider from the Mpls/StP metroplex that 3M corporate and its board were not just bad but evil. They were muscling all the elected officials and city bureaucrats to comform to PC from unlimited third-world immigration to promoting the LGBTQ (though the term was not the same) agenda. They also reshaped the public school systems with activist board members, etc.
The leftward-drifting colleges and mainstream churches were in on it too, but the fact was that nobody "important" in the twin cities so much as farted without the brave new 3M giving them permission. It broke his heart to say this about 3M, because his family had been part of it back in the days before the left co-opted them.
I don’t even care, man.
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