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Trump’s Fault!
The good “investigative reporting” question our media could not be counted on to ask was/is “when they auctioned the stockpile off, did they use the proceeds to buy new ones, to minimize the cost for replacing the old ones, or did they just put the money into the city’s general expenditures.”
meanwhile, rather than upkeep of the ventilators, cuomo spent $27 million in taxpayer dollars to fund college for illegals: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-democrats-allow-27-million-in-tuition-for-illegal-immigrants-deny-the-same-for-gold-star-families
the a$$holes also stole a shipment of masks headed to my hospital that we were in desperate need of. I had to reuse a mask for 3 days and they have plenty. spit.
Bump
“New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene”
What the heck is mental hygiene? Is that not having a dirty mind or something
Bloomy will not be criticized for this, but if Trump had done it, he would have been condemned.
Yep they can tax the hell out of the people and spend on all kinds of crap including welfare loafers and illegal immigrants
Wake up voters
California did the same thing. After 2006, they purchased 4 portable hospitals on trucks. They also purchased thousands of ventilators, and hundreds of millions of masks and other PPE.
In 2011, when their budget was tight, they sold it all off.
This is something that Preppers know and bureaucracy fails at. The way to use a stockpile is on a FIFO process and never allow the stash to go stale. Take 25 year survival food, After 3 years, use 5% of it every year and replace it. The same thing for anything that has a shelf life. Old ammunition is worrisome, get some range time with it.
On the other hand there are things for accumulation. I love silver dimes & quarters and have them stashed in a home safe. If we get a SHTF, they would spend a lot easier than gold. My problem is that I can’t easily find more now.
Ventilators? I remember living in South Carolina in the 1970s. One winter there was a real heavy, freak snowstorm that fell all the way to Savanah. It brought the entire state to a halt. It was a 50-100 year event. So what did you hear in the news? At least one vacuum-skull legislator wanted to buy snow-removal equipment for a future repeat event. I remember thinking did he own a warehouse or did he own Caterpillar stock!
I’m sure I do not want to meet the sorts of people
who would show up at a ventilator auction.
Fake News. Sound Bite mentality. Of course they did the right thing by releasing unneeded supplies instead of hoarding them. Of course they used the market to allocate them.
Would you rather the Ventilator Czar does it?
As long as the Feds knew about it in case they were other more grievous needs not being represented in the auction, I see no harm in auctions. Auctions are efficient allocators in scarcity.
Ask a real economist. We used to believe that here.
Typical liberal, they want someone else to pay for their stuff, like U.S. taxpayers, meanwhile they are free to spend THAT money on goofy worthless stuff they deem important, like diversity projects and taking care of illegals.
and the masks all eventually expired.....How the HELL could this happen in a real world?
Continuing to illustrate the problem with socialism.....you eventually run out of someone else’s money.
bttt
"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.
Exactly why would a paper mask "expire" unless it was decades old and perhaps then the paper might begin to get brittle.
Effing Criminal!
Dems care more about illegals than about tax paying, law abiding Americans.
Democrats are scum.