In Janaury https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gove...-masks-coronavirus_n_5eb6e016c5b64711c0c8cafa The shear incompetence of incompetence of this Administration is only matched by their dishonesty
Yeah...Trump should have ignored WHO, Dr. Fauchi and all his other experts and just immediately banned all travel from all countries, issued a State of Emergency Declaration and ordered every single person in the US on immediate lockdown. Is that what you think should have been done for one case out of 300+ million people?
I clearly remember the CDC and the WHO, Dr. Fauci etc discouraging people from wearing masks in late January. It was unbelievable.
That's because the WHO takes its marching orders from China and China was busy hoarding all the masks.....so the WHO just told everyone else that wearing masks didn't help......which of course was what China wanted them to say.
The first case. But what were we being told then? Were we to spend millions on something we didn't think we needed then? We weren't told till Jan. 31, how bad it really was. Here’s a WHO advisory from Jan. 14 trying to tell people that it couldn’t be transmitted between humans, according to China. https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama...-said-it-wasnt-contagious-destroyed-evidence/ He was told in December 21, it wasn't any worse than the flue.https://nj1015.com/is-dr-fauci-right-about-covid-19-opinion/
As opposed to the IT specialist who was awarded $69 million to make ventilators even though he had never even seen one before https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...et-to-president-trump-this-man-got-69-million
Trump thought the virus was serious enough to shut down air traffic from China (in a half assed way) but we don't need to ramp up PPE production? Well that kind of thinking was why we didn't have enough
As Leah said, they did so to prevent regular people from hording masks, because the healthcare workers needed them.
THIS administration? "For years, Bowen tried to get the government to pay attention to this issue. He wrote letters to Presidents Obama and Trump, warning that an epidemic could prompt China to stop exporting its supply, leaving American health care in a bind." Obama/Biden had 7 years to deal with it , Trump only 3.
Apparently they had the problem resolved with other manufacturers. Sorry he didn't get the order. Dishohesty? Give me a break.
This offer was made in January. As of APRIL, 2 months later they still hadn't gotten it "resolved". Way to be prepared for a pandemic you KNOW is coming Weren't you guys trying to blame Obama for the shortage of masks
Yes, Obama/Biden used the national stockpile and never replaced what they used. Why would anyone vote for Biden after doing that?
And here Trump could have "replaced it" months prior to the actual need for them...if he only gave a ****
The CEO of that company, the only one in the US that produces N95 masks, was on NPR saying they could not gear up fast enough to produce what was needed. I call BS on the OP.
And here Obama/Biden had 7 years to replace them but did not. Why should anyone vote for Biden again?
Why would the federal government need millions of masks? AFAIK they only run VA hospitals, some military medical units and a couple (one??) of hospitals.
Did you not know that the "national stockpile" was being used to help out the states in a disaster? And oh yea...the VA somehow didn't get what THEY needed either