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With friends like the USA you have no need for enemies!

France ordered millions of masks in China, which were already packed in an airplane ready for departure. Then Americans shows up on the airfield and paid in cash the double price, so that the airplane delivered the masks to the USA instead.

 

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With friends like the USA you have no need for enemies!

France ordered millions of masks in China, which were already packed in an airplane ready for departure. Then Americans shows up on the airfield and paid in cash the double price, so that the airplane delivered the masks to the USA instead.


I hope US will not get the same quality as the Netherlands got from their order last week in China.
1 Million masks and 600,000 turn out not to be safe enough for medical use.

And also: The US seem to forget that this will not be forgotten after the Corona crisis.
 
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With friends like the USA you have no need for enemies!

France ordered millions of masks in China, which were already packed in an airplane ready for departure. Then Americans shows up on the airfield and paid in cash the double price, so that the airplane delivered the masks to the USA instead.

Trump is like all the crazy ass peppers who are sitting in their underground shelters right now with more ammo and toilet paper than food. He doesn't think that the US needs anyone. The thing is, the only way, we, as humans, will get through this crisis, is if we help each other instead of compete and fight with each other.

If the US had taken the tests that the WHO offered early on we'd be in a better position than we are now but no, we had to do something "better", which in actuality was not "better". Now our federal government is scrambling in every way, lying and making excuses. It's pathetic. There are not ways to describe how disappointed in the leadership of our country.

We need to work with people globally, not against them but sadly, this president, thinks he's the lone ranger.
 

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New York: having a 1000 bed hospital ship with 1200 people personnel in its harbor for support but only 20 patients so far due to bureaucracy and regulations while the hospitals in the city barely manage:

“If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke,” said Michael Dowling, the head of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system. “Everyone can say, ‘Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.’ But we’re in a crisis here, we’re in a battlefield.”

 

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US pressured 3M to stop shipments of masks to Canada and south of the border.

The Minneapolis-based company said in a press release Friday that while it welcomes the Trump administration's invocation of the Defense Production Act to compel domestic companies to produce critically needed medical infrastructure, it presents some problems, too.

Among other things, the order mandates that 3M stop making N95 masks that are destined for customers in Canada and Latin America, and instead keep them in the U.S.
 

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I hope US will not get the same quality as the Netherlands got from their order last week in China.
1 Million masks and 600,000 turn out not to be safe enough for medical use.

And also: The US seem to forget that this will not be forgotten after the Corona crisis.
Don't forget Trump's history: he has convinced bank after bank to lend him money, which loans he either refused to repay or repaid only pennies on the dollar. We elected a con-man, you cannot be unaware of that.

It'll take us a long while to repair our reputation after the debacle that is Trump.
 

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New York: having a 1000 bed hospital ship with 1200 people personnel in its harbor for support but only 20 patients so far due to bureaucracy and regulations while the hospitals in the city barely manage:
BTW I made some research, these hospital ships are not meant to take COVID19 patients on board, but strictly non COVID19 patients only because the interior is basically a quite open, big space not suitable for treating infected people right.

Govi: the reputation was already damaged beyond belief by George W. Bush - but Trump for sure plays in a league of his own.
 

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BTW I made some research, these hospital ships are not meant to take COVID19 patients on board, but strictly non COVID19 patients only because the interior is basically a quite open, big space not suitable for treating infected people right.

Govi: the reputation was already damaged beyond belief by George W. Bush - but Trump for sure plays in a league of his own.
This is true, but there are lots of non Covid patients they could take to ease the burden on Covid inundated hopspitals.
 

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Our governor has declared the eastern panhandle of West Virginia to be a new hotspot for COVID-19 in the state.


COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh and Bureau of Public Health Commissioner Cathy Slemp said that the outbreak doesn’t appear to be tied to a singe source or time period. It appears to be a case of community spread that occurred over time.

Justice mentioned that there has been talk that cases may be linked to a Martinsburg Hobby Lobby store, but there’s no firm information on that.
That Hobby Lobby store is about a mile from our house, at the local mall. They closed down for one day, then opened up again by claiming they were an "essential business". Given that they're run by fundie Christians, I'm betting they also spend every Sunday in packed churches, then come back to the store and hand out coronavirus to their customers.
 

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This is true, but there are lots of non Covid patients they could take to ease the burden on Covid inundated hopspitals.
The process is tortuous however. No one can go directly to the ship, they have to go to the hospital first and then undergo tests before being taken over to the "clean" quarters. They have 20 patients right now.

Despite those precautions, I'll bet you they end up with coronavirus anyway.
 

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Don't forget Trump's history: he has convinced bank after bank to lend him money, which loans he either refused to repay or repaid only pennies on the dollar. We elected a con-man, you cannot be unaware of that.

It'll take us a long while to repair our reputation after the debacle that is Trump.
Yow!


Ok, we need masks right now but a lot of countries do.
 

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Our governor has declared the eastern panhandle of West Virginia to be a new hotspot for COVID-19 in the state.



That Hobby Lobby store is about a mile from our house, at the local mall. They closed down for one day, then opened up again by claiming they were an "essential business". Given that they're run by fundie Christians, I'm betting they also spend every Sunday in packed churches, then come back to the store and hand out coronavirus to their customers.
An essential business? How did they get away with that? A comic store in Pennsylvania tried that and got their business license pulled.
 

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The process is tortuous however. No one can go directly to the ship, they have to go to the hospital first and then undergo tests before being taken over to the "clean" quarters. They have 20 patients right now.

Despite those precautions, I'll bet you they end up with coronavirus anyway.
Oh, they will. Hospitals are full of germs. When they do those ships will not be fun to clean.
 

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With friends like the USA you have no need for enemies!

France ordered millions of masks in China, which were already packed in an airplane ready for departure. Then Americans shows up on the airfield and paid in cash the double price, so that the airplane delivered the masks to the USA instead.

So, none of the blame for this falls on the airplane crew/company NOR the manufacturer who decided "fuck the French, give us the money"?

Seriously, this was a bad move for the US to do but even worse for China as it shows they really don't care about helping other countries unless they are willing to trade fat stacks for goods. Remember that China is busy playing the victim card atm, that the virus did not start thre and backed up by an Italian doctor who, after the country received the bonus supplies from China, now remembers seeing cases of odd pneumonia back in Nov or Dec in Italy or maybe it was Oct depending on which interview you read from him.

China should have stuck to their principles and sent it to France. China was the supplier and the enabler here, most of the blame and hate should be directed towards them.
 

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Federal government spent millions to ramp up mask readiness, but that isn’t helping now

In September 2018, the Trump administration received detailed plans for a new machine designed to churn out millions of protective respirator masks at high speed during a pandemic.

The plans, submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by the medical manufacturer O&M Halyard, were the culmination of a venture unveiled almost three years earlier by the Obama administration.

But HHS did not proceed with making the machine.
 

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I can’t wait to see news about how the press and/or surrounding people call him out or tell him off (or push him off the stage) instead of news about his latest ridiculous comments or nice tone. What the fuck will it take?
For the media to stop airing those press events live, and just report the stupid stuff he said as stupid after the fact. He can't do live rallies any more, so this is his substitute method to reach his base. The media can of course air clips of useful information provided the actual doctors and such, if they appear during the event.