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Posted on 01/15/2022 4:00:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
About $7 million worth of surplus personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies, purchased by a Northern California county earlier in the pandemic, was damaged in recent rainstorms after it was left outside for months, officials said Friday.
San Mateo County officials acknowledged the disaster following a KGO news report, published Thursday, that showed video of scores of sodden boxes outside the San Mateo Event Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.
San Mateo County, south of San Francisco, is among the wealthiest counties in the nation. Workers are inspecting the damaged boxes to see if the items inside — many of them individually wrapped — will still be usable. The undamaged goods will be donated to a nonprofit.
The county plans to hire an investigator to figure out how the items were left outside since mid-September, when they were moved to an outdoor fenced-in area to make room for an event at the center.
The boxes should have been brought back indoors once the event was over, according to Friday’s statement from County Manager Mike Callagy.
“It clearly is a mistake by the county,” Callagy told KGO in an interview.
The equipment in the boxes included PPE like non-medical-grade isolation gowns, sterile gowns, face shields and goggles as well as cleaning supplies such as bleach and mop buckets and handles, the statement said.
The county's supply of gloves and masks — including N95 and KN95 respirators — are stored indoors.
Callagy's statement said the county purchased the items early in the pandemic when PPE was becoming scarce nationwide so that local first responders and medical providers would have what they needed. The demand for the equipment has decreased as the pandemic has continued.
The prospective victims, I mean patients, are safer this way.
What’s the big deal? It’s only taxpayer money. There’s plenty more where that came from.
“The county plans to hire an investigator to figure out how the items were left outside since mid-September..”
Who will no doubt spend another $1,000,000 on the investigation. And in the end no one will be punished.
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I blame globull warming for causing it to rain.
It was already worthless crap when the purchased it.
I’ve noticed for years that liberals/leftists are filthy slobs with no consideration for organization or cleanliness.
Oopsie.
Wonder how much money was skimmed in this scam.
Sounds like Depraved Indifference causing injury or death, Involuntary manslaughter, criminal negligence,.. How Many People DIED or went to the Hospital because of the CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY??
GD Blue Californians. How was that overlooked?
They must not have needed it as badly as originally thought.
Here’s the original news item.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHFZJOmMkuE
At the two minute mark you can watch the douchebag CEO Dana Stoehr drive up to the reporter and the first thing her fat butt is concerned about is trying to get the reporter to stop recording.
The main thrust of the issue here isn’t that the government wasted $10m in PPE...no, the main thrust here is that THEY NEVER NEEDED IT.
That’s the part that they want covered up. They don’t care about the waste and the graft all they care about is protecting the narrative of what a crisis Wuhan Flu is.
Except if it were really so bad then all this PPE would have been used, wouldn’t it?
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The equipment in the boxes included PPE like non-medical-grade isolation gowns, sterile gowns, face shields and goggles as well as cleaning supplies such as bleach and mop buckets and handles
Sounds like most of this should have been fine outside. The bleach is in bottles and the mops and buckets are meant to get wet.
As for the mops and buckets, shouldn’t they already have them. Sounds like they were using fed money to buy stuff that was outside the pandemic scope.
Lastly, if the stuff is good, no need to donate it. Just use it as intended. Mop buckets don’t expire.
Why does it take a formal investigation to get an answer. It should not be that difficult.
“ Why does it take a formal investigation to get an answer”
To pay an investigator who will drag it out for months and then issue an unreadable report.
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It’s all part of the Build Back Better program. trust them.
Why does it take a formal investigation to get an answer. It should not be that difficult.
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Hey!
Climate Change made it rain.
Hold on. I thought climate change caused the drought.
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