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New York City stockpiled ventilators for a pandemic, only to later auction them off: report
Fox News ^ | 4/7/20 | Tyler Olsen

Posted on 04/07/2020 11:59:29 AM PDT by conservative98

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To: New Perspective

It’s mind-boggling.


41 posted on 04/07/2020 1:34:31 PM PDT by wally_bert (Spend like you were going to the electric chair!)
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To: Mom MD
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/disinfect-clean-n95-mask-virus-coronavirus/

Also remove metal parts and microwave for 3 mins.

I'm going to heat the oven to 160°F and put the mask in, minus the elastic to see what it does.

I'm also thinking that black box with a piece of glass over the top, with airholes, would be an effective dryer.

42 posted on 04/07/2020 2:28:14 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: SES1066
Ebay for US silver coins.

I'm auctioning off 100 Roosie dimes right now but there's lots there.

43 posted on 04/07/2020 2:31:49 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: conservative98

bttt


44 posted on 04/07/2020 2:33:01 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord fr everything y have. Don't ? wait do it today.)
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To: Eagles6

if nothing else this is making us inventive


45 posted on 04/07/2020 2:33:58 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: conservative98
What concerns me the most is this paragraph:

"Those ventilators were then auctioned off some time before 2016 because the city could not afford to maintain them in working order, partially because the model of ventilator the city had purchased was no longer in production after 2009, the report said."

Earlier in the article we were told that the ventilators were purchased in 2006. This is a 3 year lifetime on equipment that now cost $20,000 to $50,000 after which parts are unavailable. These ventilators are what those of us who worked at corporations called Capital Equipment. Most capital equipment I dealt with had useful lifetimes of 10 to 20 years. During this pandemic we see buying from wherever purchasing departments can get them. This will be a nightmare to manage going forward. If there ever was a case for standardization, this would be one. If models are changed too frequently, maintenance will be a nightmare.

To minimize the inflation of medical costs, this seems to be an area where national standards with reasonable useful lifetimes are instituted to prevent having a bunch of ventilators that cannot be used because one cannot find parts.

46 posted on 04/07/2020 2:49:00 PM PDT by RetiredScientist
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To: conservative98

De Fascio


47 posted on 04/07/2020 3:03:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: conservative98
It purchased less than one-quarter of that and the masks all eventually expired.

Exactly why would a paper mask "expire" unless it was decades old and perhaps then the paper might begin to get brittle.

48 posted on 04/07/2020 3:04:10 PM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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To: Flick Lives

Looking at my box of N95 filters. Nowhere is there any “expiration date”. Sounds like some FearBro spouting Doom & Gloom in the Room Fake News.


49 posted on 04/07/2020 3:23:29 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: KarlInOhio

I’ve heard that the masks only have a five year storage life because of the elastic band used to hold it on to the face.


That’s part of it. The packaging also gets hard and gets little breaches, and the cloth will sometimes get a bit moldy. Testing all of the masks is prohibitive.


50 posted on 04/07/2020 3:28:24 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: mass55th

They also changed the term “Mentally Retarded” to “Developmentally Disabled.”


Because they think constantly changing the word will keep people from understanding what is meant.


51 posted on 04/07/2020 3:29:39 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: conservative98; LucyT
...Michael Lanza, the current assistant press secretary for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene...



Speaking of mental hygiene, Adam Lanza's father has a brother named Michael Lanza.


52 posted on 04/07/2020 3:31:19 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: RetiredScientist

They probably bought those models because they were cheap. They were probably cheap because they were nearing EOL.


53 posted on 04/07/2020 3:34:25 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
But we need a stockpile, so we need to figure out how to protect it, and how to cycle through it.

It would probably be a good idea to model the medical equipment cache on the Forestry Service's National Incident Radio Support Cache (NIRSC). This radio cache consists of some 8,000 handheld radios, 200 repeaters, plus a dozen or more portable satellite systems. It is located and maintained by the National Interagency Incident Communications Division (NIICD) of the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho. They obviously have a plan to periodically test, replace parts and replace older or damaged equipment - and it has been successfully run for decades.

54 posted on 04/07/2020 3:38:54 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: conservative98

Effing Criminal!

Dems care more about illegals than about tax paying, law abiding Americans.

Democrats are scum.


55 posted on 04/07/2020 3:48:10 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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To: God luvs America

For illegals 27M$ but not Gold Star families?

So wrong.


56 posted on 04/07/2020 4:12:42 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: dfwgator

He cut the SALT deduction. They had to sell off ventilators to make up for the revenue shortfall from a potential tax cut./S

I can’t believe I wrote that with a straight face.


57 posted on 04/07/2020 4:38:41 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Mental hygiene , like wash your brain ?


58 posted on 04/07/2020 4:46:43 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: conservative98

Is there a baby way, perhaps a fifth grade way to explain what is the difference among viruses.

The symptoms, the areas of the body they attack, the length of the illness, fever, body aches, etc.

Seems as though the symptoms are all the same, so what gives them their respective names and fatality rate. There doesn’t look like there is much distinction.

Except for the way the people are supposed to behave...like now, which I never have had to do...ever.


59 posted on 04/07/2020 5:22:34 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Col Frank Slade

It might be necessary, after that.


60 posted on 04/07/2020 5:24:31 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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