Posted on 04/05/2020 5:32:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment.
A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.
Now, three months into the crisis, that stockpile is nearly drained just as the numbers of patients needing critical care is surging. Some state and local officials report receiving broken ventilators and decade-old dry-rotted masks.
We basically wasted two months, Kathleen Sebelius, health and human services secretary during the Obama administration, told AP.
Trump and his appointees have urged state and local governments, and hospitals, to buy their own masks and breathing machines, saying requests to the dwindling national stockpile should be a last resort.
The notion of the federal stockpile was its supposed to be our stockpile, Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law and adviser, said at a White House briefing Thursday. Its not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use.
Experts in emergency preparedness and response have expressed dismay at such statements, saying the federal government must take the lead in ensuring medical supplies are available and distributed where they are needed most.
States do not have the purchasing power of the federal government. They do not have the ability to run a deficit like the federal government. They do not have the logistical power of the federal government, said Sebelius, who served as governor of Kansas before running the nations health care system.
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1)we need manufacturing of critical items here in the USA
2)the bloated bureaucracies of CDC and FDA need to be overhauled.
Fauci was saying in late February that the risk to the US was minuscule . MINUSCULE!!! And based on that assessment the federal government should have been stockpiling ventilators and PPEs throughout January and February?
This is what “they” have planned next.
Prosecuting Trumps response to the Virus.
Of course they will ignore that there were NO democrats
raising serious concerns until long after Trump took steps
to stop it’s spread. Like banning travel from China and so
on.
Not sure why we put up with this insanity. Most of these
morons on the left deserve to be voted out of office. If not
executed for treason?
“The stocks were exhausted following the 2009 swine flu outbreak. Obama never replenished them, Trump never replenished them.”
Obama knew they got used up. He presided through a pandemic.
Trump was kept distracted since his in inauguration, fighting D’rats’ impeachment/coup attempt.
What CDC leaders of today were there during H1N1? Who picked them?
And state governors should have had their states prepped, not the fed. No bitching about the fed if your state wasn’t prepared.
Hang preparedness issues around the D’rats’ necks, past and present, fed and state levels, where it belongs.
Enough Democrats! ED!
Freepers waving to us from the antiFauci bandwagon will not accept any thing he says that is contrary to their anti agenda.
Ultimately they are attacking the president for his stupidity in appointing the man to the Spence led task force.
and what did Kathleen Sebelius, 0bama, Biden or Clinton do to get the country ready for this? The answer is nothing. It was just the other day that Biden finally came out in support of the travel ban placed on China by Trump over 2 months ago. If it was up to the democrats, we would have allowed millions of Chinese from Wuhan to flood into the country and the virus outbreak would have been much worse.
Disgraceful CCP propaganda.
Obama used up the emergency stockpile, never replenished it, and never told anybody.
I prefer hanged on the WDC mall with their lifeless bodies left to rot and be picked-over by birds. This would be a useful message from our Republic to traitors/seditionists.
It is hard to pin the Red Chinese Virus on the president who wanted our borders secured - especially when the accusers were paid off to keep them open.
This sad situation should bolster the cred of an “America First” president, while returning more manufacturing to our country than we’ve seen in the last three years.
The Ass. Press fails to note that the nations leading expert, Fauci, said on Jan 26 that this epidemic was low risk to the US
“U.S. wasted months”
That’s such a myopic argument. If we wasted months so did 150 other countries dealing with the same problem.
Maybe the Dems should have taken a look at what was happening in China and abandoned their disgraceful, pathetic attempt to impeach Trump and instead come together & rally behind him for the good of the country. Obviously they were either oblivious to what was happening or cared more about destroying Trump than they cared about the American people.
While the President was trying to pay attention to what was happening in China, the Dems were focused on destroying the presidency.
July might be a pretty good time for this to happen. I know that I will be willing to spend a few days in Washington at that time to join a million other Patriots in demonstrating against this malicious waste of ,taxpayer dollars when there is NO evidence that DJT did anything impeachable.
Lots of people have predictions about what is going to occur after we get COVID-19 under control.
It makes for interesting reading, but it is really too soon to tell.
I think for certain it means that we will be onshoring critical manufacturing.
Other than that, it all depends on how this thing plays out.
A country full of socialist governors who poured money into bullsh*t causes instead of doing state preparedness and fought Trump daily... are not at fault...right.
This is absolute bull shit. Here are facts, and what the media reported at the time:
Jan. 6, 2020 - It is known there is a flu like illness in China. There are 59 cases.
I don't know about you, unless your some frickin' pansy, but 59 cases of the flu doesn't make me do anything when it's frickin' half way around the world.
Jan 11, 2020 - China reports there are 41 people with the flu, and death. This sucker doesn't even have a name yet. The F'n Chinese say there is no evidence that the illness can spread person to person.
I don't know about you, unless your some frickin' pansy, but 41 cases of the flu doesn't make me do anything when it's frickin' half way around the world and it doesn't spread person to person.
Jan. 20, 2020 - WHO situation report states As of 20 January 2020, 282 confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV have been reported from four countries including China (278 cases), Thailand (2 cases), Japan (1 case) and the Republic of Korea (1 case)
I don't know about you, unless your some frickin' pansy, but a report from the commie WHO doesn't makes me do squat, especially when some virus is half way around the world, seems localized to Asia, and there are only 282 cases.
Jan. 21, 2020 - the impeachment trail begins. There's a terrible virus out there killing thousands of people (actually there isn't) but the US is filled with a bunch of panty wastes that are so scared of the flu that they are spending all their time impeaching Trump. They are not social distancing and shutting in. They are trying to destroy the President and this country. The frickin' Rats don't say one damn word about the ChiCom flu.
I don't know about you, unless your some frickin' pansy, but I'm not lifting a finger to do anything about some flu when our country is being attacked from within. F'n Rats are more dangerous than the flu.
Jan. 22, 2020 - This is no longer the beginning of January, as the article state, "As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic,
The United States has it's first case of the ChiCom flu on January 22. January 31, there are 7 cases. I don't know about you, unless your some frickin' pansy, but 7 cases of the flu when the President is being impeached just makes me want to go Rat hunting.
If you are interest in a non-foul-mouth laced timeline of the ChiCom flu, see this post, unless your a frickin' pansy.
It seems the general plan of attack on the President from Rats is that he did nothing when a pandemic was raging and millions of people were dying. Their narrative is false. Freepers better get some guts and stop quaking in their shoes over some frickin' half ass flu. Don't be a frickin' pansy.
It's interesting how coronavirus "hot spots" are all in sanctuary cities/states, with large illegal alien populations.
“Why? I dont know.”
Easy to answer. The reason why no one in government bothered to prep is because prepping isn’t sexy, in that you don’t get votes for it. Spending the money on an ‘arts’ program gets you votes. Buying masks when the supply is unlimited and sticking them in warehouses for some stupid ‘doomsday’ scenario where the world runs out of masks and toilet paper, is just paranoid hoarding - because everyone knows that there is NO WAY that day would ever come...
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