Posted on 09/24/2022 11:39:00 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The State of New York, as part of its COVID-19 response, overproduced hand sanitizer by hundreds of thousands of gallons, costing the state taxpayer close to $10 million.
Under the leadership of former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York spent over $4 million in taxpayer funds to produce the 700,000 gallons of hand sanitizer that were never used, WRGB News reported. The massive amount of product was abandoned by the state until criticism forced New York to send it to a local recycling facility, adding millions more to the cost of the abandoned stockpile, according to the report.
The 168 trailer loads of sanitizer were left on a runway at the New York State Disaster Preparedness Center in Oriskany, New York, for months before the state reported that Eastman Kodak would transport and recycle the leftover product, according to WRGB News. (RELATED: New York City Has Completely Failed To Recover From The Pandemic)
On top of the $4.3 million New York paid to produce the unneeded hand sanitizer, the state has agreed to pay Eastman Kodak $2.32 million to transport and extract the recyclable component of the cleanser, the outlet reported.
It will take the Eastman Kodak company around 44 weeks to ship the hand sanitizer to its Eastman Business Park in Rochester, New York, and remove the isopropyl alcohol, which can be used in manufacturing, reported WRGB News.
“This is a classic example not just of government, but really of governor malpractice and a lack of transparency,” Republican New York state Sen. Jim Tedisco told WRGB News when the cache of hand sanitizer was uncovered. Democratic New York state Assemblywoman Marianne Buttenschon said the situation was “very concerning,” the outlet reported.
Dump it in Fauci’s pool.
They can’t sell it?
“...Democratic New York state Assemblywoman Marianne Buttenschon said the situation was “very concerning,”....”
yeah, sure...hey, it’s only taxpayors’ money...no big deal...that’s what they always say...”very concerning....”
Take it all up to Albany and dowse that sewer of a state Capitol building with it
Then there was the ship...and the portable hospitals for NY.
Pass them out to the immigrants at the border.
Meanwhile: New York spent $250M on tech to fight Covid that no one uses
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/20/ny-ventilators-covid-national-guard-00056603
Send it all to the EUro-weenies to burn on their campfires this winter.
The bums will drink it.
(Under the leadership of former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York spent over $4 million in taxpayer funds to produce the 700,000 gallons of hand sanitizer that were never used)
Keep voting Democrat, New York!!
The worse part is that free enterprise would (and did) fill the need without taxpayer money, and without the waste. It was such a stupid idea to begin with.
Hose the invading b^st^rds with it until they roll so far south they drop into Cape Horn.
Containers of hand sanitizer are free for the taking around suburban Des Moines.
A hundred-and-fifty-pound man carries something like five pounds of bacteria. It’s everywhere, gut, liver, skin, everywhere. This is why dogs, who have amazing ability to smell things, know hours before someone dies that they are dying. Your immune system can keep up with all these bacteria while you’re healthy. But as you weaken and die your body gives up on killing bacteria and concentrates on just keeping your heart pumping. The bacteria start growing out of control and they stink.
Your body is like a perfectly balanced ecosystem. It’s like having a nice lawn but with a few weeds. The grass out grows the weeds. Now, let’s say you use a hand sanitizer that kills 95 percent of the bacteria on your hands. The stuff that survives begins to take over the ecosystem. Soon, all you’ll have on your hands are the weeds that can’t be killed by hand sanitizer and none of the good bacteria that would ordinarily crowd out the bad bacteria.
The way soap works is this. It doesn’t sterilize. It changes the surface tension so that excess debris (dirt) is able to wash off. But hand sanitizer kills bacteria. It kills the good and the bad, but it leaves one type. That’s the type that hand sanitizer can’t kill. What happens when you have upset the ecosystem and only have one unkillable type of bacteria on your hands? We’re all better off just washing our hands with soap.
Won't sell it because the right people wouldn't make any money.
700,000 gallons? They should be spraying streets and sidewalks in New York City with it, as well as the buses and subways.
Well explicated.
The constant sanitizing also fed into the inculcated OCD. This kept everyone occupied and had the added benefit of upping the fear & anxiety.
The constant application of alcohol dries out the skin and cracks form, even if they aren’t visible. This allows an entry of bacteria where it normally doesn’t penetrate.
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