No wonder when a cargo plane carrying 8.5 million masks arrived in Paris, the French government deployed a hundred fully-armed gendarmes to guard/escort the goods. (source: 20minf, translation)Spies, hijacks and export bans: the global battle for coronavirus equipment
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-coronavirus-equipment-masks-tests
No wonder when a plane carrying 8.5 million masks arrives in Paris, the French government deployed a hundred fully-armed gendarmes to guard/escort the goods. (source: 20minf, translation)
This is not an isolated incident.
Des masques pour le Québec détournés
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/04/02/des-masques-pour-le-quebec-detournes
Translation: A shipment of medical-grade masks that landed near Montreal and was scheduled for distribution got loaded back onto a plane and send to Cincinnati, OH. Zero explanation.
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Translation: A shipment of medical-grade masks that landed near Montreal and was scheduled for distribution got loaded back onto a plane and send to Cincinnati, OH. Zero explanation.
Well, folks, that's business. More precisely, capitalism.
Strategic National Stockpile is the nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out.
When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency. Organized for scalable response to a variety of public health threats, this repository contains enough supplies to respond to multiple large-scale emergencies simultaneously.
"The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile," he said during Thursday's coronavirus briefing. "It's not supposed to be states' stockpiles that they then use."
I'd really love to hear a defense of this from one of our conservative voices. Really. What's it going to take for any of you to admit at the very, very least this administration is bungling and has been bungling the response to the pandemic? Or is there no breaking point for you?
I want every single reporter for the rest of ever to ask him who the **** "our" is.
ETA: What I really want is his fellow inmates jeering at him over it as he serves a life sentence, but I'll take the MSM pushing the point for now.
Undeterred, he has now arrogated to himself a major role in fighting the epochal health crisis that’s brought America to its knees. “Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response,” said a Politico headline on Wednesday. This is dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy.
Kushner has embedded his own people in the Federal Emergency Management Agency; a senior official described them to The Times as “a ‘frat party’ that descended from a U.F.O. and invaded the federal government.
Quoting my own post to say: Now that people are pointing to the website, they changed the wording from the above to:This what I says on the Strategic National Stockpile website:
That's what our tax dollars paid for.
Yesterday, this is what Jared Kushner said about it:
I'd really love to hear a defense of this from one of our conservative voices. Really. What's it going to take for any of you to admit at the very, very least this administration is bungling and has been bungling the response to the pandemic? Or is there no breaking point for you?
The Strategic National Stockpile's role is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have products stockpiled, as well. The supplies, medicines, and devices for life-saving care contained in the stockpile can be used as a short-term stopgap buffer when the immediate supply of adequate amounts of these materials may not be immediately available.
I'd really love to hear a defense of this from one of our conservative voices. Really. What's it going to take for any of you to admit at the very, very least this administration is bungling and has been bungling the response to the pandemic? Or is there no breaking point for you?
Quoting my own post to say: Now that people are pointing to the website, they changed the wording from the above to:
Donald Trump is the Dunning-Kruger president of the United States.
But he is also something much worse than that. Donald Trump is an almost perfect living, breathing example of the Dunning-Kruger effect: a president in a time of plague whose ignorance and stupidity are amplified through apparent and obvious mental illness as well as cruelty, compulsive lying, grand immorality, corruption and evil.
Dr. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine and editor of the bestseller "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," recently convened a panel on the coronavirus in her role as president of the World Mental Health Coalition. The panel discussed Trump's bungled response to the crisis and his attempts to downplay the threat posed by the pandemic.
The panel issued a "prescription for survival" arguing that Trump must be removed from office, whether through the 25th Amendment, a second congressional impeachment or his resignation. Alternatively, the panel recommended an intervention by mental health professionals or an act of Congress to establish a Coronavirus Crisis Department headed by the Centers for Disease Control to ensure the safety of the public.
Update.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...iges-en-ohio-a-cause-dune-erreur-informatique
The explanation from DHL: a computer bug. The shipment never left the DHL shipping center South of Montreal.
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There was a discussion on the CBC News just now about the returned masks but it was interrupted for a National message.
This is beyond being mishandled and well into the territory of incompetrumpetty's mental illness.
“Remarkably narcissistic,” said developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Textbook narcissistic personality disorder,” echoed clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis. “He’s so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example of his characteristics,” said clinical psychologist George Simon, who conducts lectures and seminars on manipulative behavior. “Otherwise, I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes. He’s like a dream come true.”
"The Art Of Keeping Allies(tm)"... Indeed.
Many on board gave Crozier a warm and loud send off, clapping and cheering as he left the ship, according to a video taken by a person onboard the ship and obtained by CNN.
Number of positive cases continues to increase
News of Crozier's removal comes after a US defense official told CNN Friday morning that 137 sailors from the Roosevelt have tested positive for the virus, representing more than 10% of all cases across the US military.
The outbreak on the ship is escalating rapidly.
"We have seen an increase in demand on pharmaceuticals that's unprecedented," says Daniel Kistner, who manages the pharmacy program for Vizient, a group purchasing organization that negotiates lower prices with drug manufacturers. "Never seen anything like this before across the whole country."
This week, Vizient released data showing dramatic spikes in demand for sedatives, pain medications, paralytics, and other drugs that are crucial for patients who are on ventilators. According to Vizient's study, the rate at which those orders are filled is lagging far behind the demand.
"We're not at a rate yet where there's just no drug," Kistner says, "but we are quickly approaching it."
Just what everyone needs now--the US may get more ventilators, but now necessary drugs needed to keep people sedated while on ventilators could run out.
I’m going to start by saying I will get none of the details on dates correct, because I feel like March 6th to today has been one day. I can’t keep track of it anymore. So what I do know is that sometime around the time that we had our 3 million masks that we had ordered through BJ’s confiscated in the Port in New York, that at that point it became pretty clear to us that using what I would describe as sort of a traditional approach to this wasn’t going to work and just started calling everybody I could think of who might have the ability to help us access N95 masks, which were clearly viewed at that point … That was the loss. It was 3,000,095 masks that we lost in the Port in New York.
Just so we're clear on how Trump is handling distributing PPE and ventilators:
1) States are buying PPE and ventilators for themselves because they can't get them from the federal government.
2) The federal government is stopping planes on tarmacs to confiscate these shipments.
8:35 PM · Apr 3, 2020·Twitter Web Client
3) The federal government is then allowing private distributors like McKesson to transport those confiscated PPE on FEMA planes to recipients determined by federal government. It's unclear what the profit mechanism for these private distributors is or how recipients are chosen.
4) States who had their ordered supplies confiscated turn around and start asking the federal government for supplies, since theirs were confiscated.
5) The Trump family goes on TV to say "it's the FEDERAL stockpile, not the STATE stockpile, you should have planned ahead."
6) States have to go to extraordinary means (like using NFL planes and covertly coordinating with other states) to finally get PPE and ventilators.
7) People die due to lack of needed medical resources.
8) Trump keeps killing people, because no one will hold him accountable.
Just what everyone needs now--the US may get more ventilators, but now necessary drugs needed to keep people sedated while on ventilators could run out.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/04/8269...but-run-out-of-medicine-for-covid-19-patients
Is it too tin-foil-hatt-ish of me to start thinking that all of this mishandling and sloughing off of responsibility is a deliberate exploitation of the situation, so they can, in the confusion, sabotage the election and keep *rump in power?