Why the States Must Surge Medical Supplies, explained in two easy points
Why the States must surge medical supplies, explained in two easy points
by New Deal democrat
Point 1:
The most recent “plan” of the Trump Administration is to extend the lockdown through the end of April. It is based on the below graph from a foundation endowed by Bill and Melinda Gates:
The graph anticipates roughly 100,000 deaths during April and May, peaking in mid-April at about 2500 deaths per day.
But it also presumes that the lockdown remains in place indefinitely, or at very least that a South Korea-style monitoring system is in place by the time the lockdown is released.
But Trump has no such plan in place, and is not taking any steps to put such a plan in place. He is expecting that the benefits will magically take place anyway.
Which means, since Trump will *never* undertake the necessary actions, either:
1. The lockdown is going to have to remain in place indefinitely, until there is an adequate treatment or vaccine;
Or
2. The States go around Trump and his Administration, and put the system in place, including a supply of the necessary medical equipment such as thermometers and testing, in coordination on their own.
The situation is both that appalling and that simple.
Agreed, cause trump will never do the right thing.
I have always hated the Patriots, but hard to hate them after this.
“Robert Kraft Did a Good Thing. Now What Happens to Other States Without an NFL Team?
The federal government is failing its citizens during a massive public health crisis.
On the one hand, it’s a helluva story, an international swashbuckler featuring a pandemic, a beleaguered governor, the millionaire owner of a championship sports team, his airplane, and a covert trip to China to bring back desperately needed medical supplies. On the other hand, it is a monumental testament to how utterly miserably the present federal government has failed its citizens in a time of a massive public health crisis. From The Boston Globe:
‘The red-white-and-blue-wrapped 767 touched down at Logan Airport around 6 p.m., bearing the first of two shipments of masks the Baker administration purchased from Chinese suppliers. The journey began, in the governor’s telling, roughly two weeks ago, when the federal government confiscated a shipment of more than 3 million N95 masks at the Port of New York and New Jersey that Massachusetts had arranged to buy.
Last week, the federals hijacked a shipment of the masks earmarked for the Commonwealth (God save it!).
‘“Force majeure,” [Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou] Sudders said Friday, citing the legal clause that translates to “superior force” and typically allows parties to opt out of a contract due to unforeseen circumstances. In this case, that was the federal government exercising its authority over the state amid the pandemic, she said. “They take,” Sudders said, “what we order.”’
This latter story was further illuminated at Thursday’s edition of the administration’s daily Five O’Clock Follies, in which El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago blamed the states for not being prepared, the Dauphin accused some states of overstating their needs, and Dr. Margaret Brix talked about why testing kits are being sent to places that are not yet hot-spots. The only order in this chaos seems to be the administration’s determination to do more to set states against each other than anything since the Fugitive Slave Law.”
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32030408/robert-kraft-medical-supplies/