...the toilet...
Posted on 01/19/2022 11:05:25 AM PST by nickcarraway
Just days after more than $10 million worth of personal protective equipment was found outside damaged by rain at a Bay Area event center, a similar discovery was made at a Hollister business where hundreds of thousands of face shields were found outside and are now headed to the landfill, never to be used.
“That's a shame because if it would've gone to someplace that really needed it, it would've been used in a proper fashion, it's a downright shame,” said Antonio Rodriguez, who saw hundreds of boxes piled high.
The face shields are owned by ICU Eyewear out of Hollister. The company's CEO, Kirk Hobbs, said the company bought millions of them 18 months ago but demand for the PPE never materialized.
"These face shields just weren't something people really needed or wanted to use," said Hobbs.
So they were left outside where they were damaged by the rain.
“That's really a tragedy that, really is. I wished they'd figure something else to do with that because it doesn't take a lot of brains to figure out what needs to be done for that rather than just leave it in the rain,” said Heather Caputo, of Hollister.
The company says 5 million of the face shields were donated to the state of California and another 1 million to Idaho. The company also tried to donate a large number to Mexico, but the CEO says the logistics just couldn’t be worked out.
But now the lifecycle of the product is nearing its end and Hobbs said, "We just don't think it's appropriate to give them to folks any longer."
The discovery comes just days after KGO-TV in San Francisco uncovered a massive amount of personal protective equipment at the San Mateo county event center, with a value estimated at more than $10 million.
Taxpayers were left footing the bill in that case, but in Hollister, ICU Eyewear is a privately held company.
“I mean that’s just a big waste entirely for sure,” said Caputo.
“I thought to myself, 'what a shame, they are losing money in their inventory' and little did I know I was going to end up finding that it was PPE equipment that was very sought after by the medical field,” added Rodriguez.
The company CEO admitted the scene outside his company does not look good but says the company had no choice but to destroy the face shields.
Hollister didn’t like what they saw either. A code enforcement officer was sent to the company offices on Shelton Drive and gave them written notice to clear out the boxes, according to Mayor Ignacio Velazquez.
At any level.
Wait. Plastic face shields expire?
Anyone surprised by this? Anyone?
We should just build a junk pile monument to government graft and corruption out of all this crap.
I’m in CA—in their defense, it rains so seldom here in recent years that they probably completely forgot to store these items inside when it finally did rain a month ago :)
...the toilet...
And how could rain damage them?
“That’s a shame because if it would’ve gone to someplace that really needed it, it would’ve been used in a proper fashion, it’s a downright shame,”
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Not a shame, their purpose was served. The supplier got paid and the politician got their “campaign donation”.
I have to wonder if these items were all sub-standard and were purposely put outside to be “ruined”.
Well, what was Rafe supposed to do with those things? Feed them to his pigs?
Make them pay back this amount of their covid relief funds.
I hope the workers at the land fill give it a proper burial.
Where did all the NYC ventilators go? Where are our taxes going? Illegals are milking us dry and clogging up the hospitals.
In other news, 40% of US food ends up in landfills. Getting it down on an up close and personal level, how much food do you (the general you all) let rot in the back of the fridge or willy nilly toss out and 5 minutes later tweet your grocery shelves are empty?
What is this "toss-ed fo-od" you speak of?
Once the payoffs and kickbacks are made, the vehicles for those scams don’t matter, any more than the alleged recipients for them. The dem political mob made their dough, what else matters?
Which, I guess, means that the corruptocrats who run these scams figure that weather reporters have as much credibility as they themselves do.
They do when the maker is delivering a government contract item and puts an expiration date on it - knowing that they’ll be required to destroy them after the expiration date. Giant scam.
Not just govt. All kinds of products have “use by” dates now that never did before.
There is a Los Banos’ in the Philippines. Almost every 3 blocks, there is small hotel with at least 10 hot springs per hotel, which is heaven. It’s in the province of Laguna, and the air smells like nature far away from sh8tty Manila.
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