Government Turned Down Mask Offer

[Lesh]

U.S. Turned Down Offer To Manufacture Millions Of N95 Masks As Coronavirus Spread

After the first COVID-19 case was detected in January, a company offered to make millions of N95 masks. A federal agency said no.

www.huffpost.com

In late January.

The incompetence and shear idiocy of this Administration is mind bending

Who can Trump blame this on??

 

[OKTexas]

Time "consuming and expensive" business talk for gouging justification. Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive. Carry on propagandist.

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[BULLDOG]

Time "consuming and expensive" business talk for gouging justification. Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive. Carry on propagandist.

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The very next day after the offer was made, they sent another email saying they already had enough orders from others to make opening the production lines worthwhile,, and didn't really need the governments business, They just wanted to help the government prepare. Obviously, Trump didn't care.

 

[OKTexas]

Time "consuming and expensive" business talk for gouging justification. Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive. Carry on propagandist.

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The very next day after the offer was made, they sent another email saying they already had enough orders from others to make opening the production lines worthwhile,, and didn't really need the governments business, They just wanted to help the government prepare. Obviously, Trump didn't care.

So they were marketing to more than just the feds, also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer, I didn't see it in the huffypoot propaganda.

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[BULLDOG]

Time "consuming and expensive" business talk for gouging justification. Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive. Carry on propagandist.

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The very next day after the offer was made, they sent another email saying they already had enough orders from others to make opening the production lines worthwhile,, and didn't really need the governments business, They just wanted to help the government prepare. Obviously, Trump didn't care.

So they were marketing to more than just the feds, also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer, I didn't see it in the huffypoot propaganda.

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His administration had knowledge. Not my fault if he sucks at running his administration.

 

[Lesh]

Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive.
How do you know? Because it wasn't made public? Neither was this. FAIL

So they were marketing to more than just the feds,

And giving the Feds first dibs

also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer,

He damn sure should have. But then he had disbanded his pandemic response team months previously so....

 

[OKTexas]

Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive.
How do you know? Because it wasn't made public? Neither was this. FAIL

So they were marketing to more than just the feds,

And giving the Feds first dibs

also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer,

He damn sure should have. But then he had disbanded his pandemic response team months previously so....

Yeah, just like your dear leader knew what every GD postal employee was doing at any given time. FUCK OFF HYPOCRITE.

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[Crepitus]

Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive.
How do you know? Because it wasn't made public? Neither was this. FAIL

So they were marketing to more than just the feds,

And giving the Feds first dibs

also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer,

He damn sure should have. But then he had disbanded his pandemic response team months previously so....

Yeah, just like your dear leader knew what every GD postal employee was doing at any given time. FUCK OFF HYPOCRITE.

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This isn't like micromanaging, this is a critical national need.

If tRump didn't know about it it's his own fault.

 

[OKTexas]

Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive.
How do you know? Because it wasn't made public? Neither was this. FAIL

So they were marketing to more than just the feds,

And giving the Feds first dibs

also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer,

He damn sure should have. But then he had disbanded his pandemic response team months previously so....

Yeah, just like your dear leader knew what every GD postal employee was doing at any given time. FUCK OFF HYPOCRITE.

.

This isn't like micromanaging, this is a critical national need.

If tRump didn't know about it it's his own fault.

Oh fuck you asshole, that was very early when the chicoms and the WHO were saying it wasn't transmissible person to person. Fauci your hero, was still sucking the WHO's dick at that time and telling Americans that the risk was "very low".

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[Crepitus]

Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive.
How do you know? Because it wasn't made public? Neither was this. FAIL

So they were marketing to more than just the feds,

And giving the Feds first dibs

also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer,

He damn sure should have. But then he had disbanded his pandemic response team months previously so....

Yeah, just like your dear leader knew what every GD postal employee was doing at any given time. FUCK OFF HYPOCRITE.

.

This isn't like micromanaging, this is a critical national need.

If tRump didn't know about it it's his own fault.

Oh fuck you asshole, that was very early when the chicoms and the WHO were saying it wasn't transmissible person to person. Fauci your hero, was still sucking the WHO's dick at that time and telling Americans that the risk was "very low".

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Fake news.

 

[Lesh]

Honeywell set up two plants from scratch and didn't bitch about it being time consuming or expensive.
How do you know? Because it wasn't made public? Neither was this. FAIL

So they were marketing to more than just the feds,

And giving the Feds first dibs

also prove Trump had any knowledge of the offer,

He damn sure should have. But then he had disbanded his pandemic response team months previously so....

Yeah, just like your dear leader knew what every GD postal employee was doing at any given time. FUCK OFF HYPOCRITE.

.

This isn't like micromanaging, this is a critical national need.

If tRump didn't know about it it's his own fault.

Oh fuck you asshole, that was very early when the chicoms and the WHO were saying it wasn't transmissible person to person. Fauci your hero, was still sucking the WHO's dick at that time and telling Americans that the risk was "very low".

.

Actually this was within days of when Trump realized that the pandemic was so serious that he "sorta" shut down travel from China...

 

[Sun Devil 92]

U.S. Turned Down Offer To Manufacture Millions Of N95 Masks As Coronavirus Spread

After the first COVID-19 case was detected in January, a company offered to make millions of N95 masks. A federal agency said no.

www.huffpost.com

In late January.

The incompetence and shear idiocy of this Administration is mind bending

Who can Trump blame this on??

TDS thread 1,518

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Of course, Donald Trump will blame Obama telling his faithful Obama made me do it.

Donald Trump screwed up the Covid19 response leading to the USA having one of the worst performances in the world and the most deaths.

US government turned down opportunity to manufacture millions of N-95 masks at start of pandemic: report

US government turned down opportunity to manufacture millions of N-95 masks at start of pandemic: report
BY J. EDWARD MORENO - 05/09/20 09:22 PM EDT

The Department of Health and Human Services turned down an opportunity to access millions of U.S.-manufactured N-95 masks in January, according to The Washington Post.

The N-95 masks have been in high demand since the pandemic hit the United States and healthcare workers scramble to protect themselves as thousands of patients flood local hospitals.

On January 22, a medical supply company in Fort Worth, Texas, Prestige Ameritech, offered to ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks, noting that the federal government’s stockpile was diminishing.

The government turned down the offer.

“I don’t believe we as a government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded the same day Prestige inquired about its stockpile, according to the Post.

Michael Bowen, who owns the company, told HHS his company was receiving various requests from private entities but would be willing to set masks aside for the government. ...

 

[playtime]

this doesn't surprise me one bit; CONsidering 18 tons of PPE were shipped over to china when the disease first materialized ( that we actually knew about ), instead of keeping it here for us..

then this?

no wonder several states have been complaining that FEMA has been on the ground, intercepting & stealing PPE & equipment from them that have already been paid for by the states.

& donny is trying to peddle the bullshit story & blame obama that after 3 1/2 years 'the cub boards were bare'. no thinking biped is buying it though.

 

[Penelope]

I can't wait for his testimony Thurs.

 

[playtime]

I can't wait for his testimony Thurs.

are you talking about dr. bright, the whistle blower?

 

[Mac-7]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

 

[playtime]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

 

[Leweman]

Would this had stopped all the deaths Cuomo caused in New York?