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We didn’t have to have ventilator shortage — leaders chose not to prep for pandemic
The New York Post ^ | March 19, 2020 | Betsy McCaughey

Posted on 05/17/2021 2:07:08 PM PDT by TBP

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To: TBP

Biden just moved billions Congress voted for increasing the PPE stockpile to funding illegals.


21 posted on 05/17/2021 2:49:17 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: TBP

There are a few parts of the problem with government. People of the US have been conditioned to the aspect of denial. No one will attack us or threaten us. We are a country of superheroes that can’t be harmed. Generations of citizens have been surprised so often and they just don’t learn about seeing the obvious, or get taught to look.

The government always seems to have the answer to their problem right after it surfaces. Sometimes after many years of it until it is advertised to be the most horrific thing on this little dirt clod, or an actual thing they admit to knowing was coming, but had to wait for it to arrive like tornadoes. They even developed organizations to offset these types of problems in advance: FEMA, the Red Cross, and in the old days, civil defense.

They glorified groups until they became a nuisance: the military, the spies, nuclear power, and the latest, the police. Lawyers will never end up like that as most of our politicians are lawyers. Can’t cut off your own nose.

They have taught (forced) us to buy certain things they wish to provide, travel the way they want, pay for our own property just to keep it in the family every year, and do it by lying and setting prices no one can afford (except them). The stopped taxing items and are now using use taxes: gasoline, tolls, certain vehicles that cause price increases like trucks, higher sales taxes on certain items like candy and soda to make you not use them.

You can “Baaa” all you want, but they are closing the gate on the corral and many inside are not seeing it because they trust the shepherds and are not looking. And the shepherds are saying the grass inside the corral is better than the meadow. Is it?

wy69


22 posted on 05/17/2021 3:00:47 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: TBP

New limos & office furniture vs. more ventilators. No contest.


23 posted on 05/17/2021 3:02:34 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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24 posted on 05/17/2021 3:02:44 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: carriage_hill

Article on vents in landfill:

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/04/26/local-10-investigates-discovering-origin-of-brand-new-ventilators-found-in-miami-dade-landfill-and-why-they-were-discarded/


25 posted on 05/17/2021 3:03:52 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: carriage_hill
From the article showing that pic:

"However, the Beijing Aerospace ChangFeng Ltd ACM812A was not on a list of 86 ventilator models approved for emergency authorized use by the FDA."

Somebody was trying to make some bucks selling Chinesium during the panic over ventilators.

26 posted on 05/17/2021 3:28:08 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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FreeRepublic, April 9, 2021: Video shows pallets of ventilators dumped in Miami-Dade landfill
27 posted on 05/17/2021 3:29:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: JerryBlackwell

The hospital ships weren’t a waste, except Governors Cuomo and Newsome refused to use them. Better people die than Trump gets credit.

That’s liberal compassion in action.


28 posted on 05/17/2021 3:32:48 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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Actually, what we had to do was look for treatments so people didn’t get to the point where they needed a ventilator. But of course Fauci et al shot those down immediately.

Remember, “Trump wants people to drink fish tank cleaner”? Many lives could have been saved with available treatments and the ventilators, which turned out to do more harm than good, would never have been used.


29 posted on 05/17/2021 4:35:25 PM PDT by livius
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To: sockmonkey

Saw those too. Too expensive to ship overseas (Africa?) or too expensive for storage? Faulty product?


30 posted on 05/17/2021 4:55:48 PM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: carriage_hill

FYI there was about 60 ventilators at the dump.


31 posted on 05/17/2021 4:56:34 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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There never was a vent shortage. To think that means you believed the liberal media.


32 posted on 05/17/2021 5:40:23 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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The survival rate of anyone with COVID-19 went on a vent is about 5%. That is it, a vent was a death sentence and yet they were needed.


33 posted on 05/17/2021 5:43:25 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: monkeyshine

95%


34 posted on 05/17/2021 5:44:23 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: TBP

There never was a shortage.


35 posted on 05/17/2021 5:48:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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There was in New York.


36 posted on 05/17/2021 6:22:28 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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This article is simply too old for me to share with my genius friends who are Ventilator Masters.


37 posted on 05/17/2021 6:26:14 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
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