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Originally Posted by FlyingScot
C'mon, man. Even if your dates are accurate, the time for action was not after the first case of suspected transmission. First, we should have made sure we were ready for a crisis. I trust you've seen the news reports on how strategic stockpiles of PPEs were depleted, a key White House office was disbanded, and the Obama-era playbook was ignored. Then we should have swung into high gear not at the first case, but as soon as we should have expected the first case to be coming. Senator Burr knew the cases were coming weeks ahead of Feb 27, and he acted. (Google Burr stock sales)
A week or two ago Cal (colorfully) asked a Democrat if he'd step up and acknowledge he was wrong as more numbers came in and showed the virus to be no big deal. With the President now talking about 240K deaths, maybe you should be stepping up?
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News sources confirm that the current shortage of N95 respirator masks goes back to 2009 after the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. In a report citing the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg News, Breitbart News is reporting that the Obama administration was advised to replenish the stockpile of masks, however ignored requests to do so.
After what happened in 2009, a federally backed task force recommended to the Obama administration that the nation’s supply be replenished with the 100 million masks used during the H1N1 outbreak. Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Association said that the advice was ignored.
The reason we don’t have the respirator masks goes back to the Obama/Biden administration when they were advised to replenish the stockpile that had been used during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. But it never happened, they never did it, according to the Washington Examiner.