Beyond the Politico story from a week ago, has there been a big national newspaper story on what's happening with these federal seizures of PPE shipments that have already been bought and paid for by states?https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1247272463001686017 …
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This is horrifying and horrifyingly inefficient:https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1247335425074696199?s=21 …
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I hope there are more and more national stories about this.https://twitter.com/EthanZ/status/1245831692826202112?s=20 …
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Finally. A national news story.https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies …
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Some more national discussion here.https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/1248328975631421440 …
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"President Donald Trump is treating life-saving medical equipment as emoluments he can dole out as favors to loyalists. It’s the worst imaginable form of corruption — playing political games with lives."https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-editorial-trump-gardner-polis-supplies/ …
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@nytimes story, albeit more charitable.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-fema-medical-supplies.html …Show this thread
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Like, this is a market economy. His point was that the private sector, not the government, has the supply chain to get the equipment out to the thousands of hospitals that are end-users. Government not set up for that. Like
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Dereliction of duty. Also price gouging, no market regulation. And don’t tell me they can’t do it: someone was in charge of (political) distributions from the now exhausted Strategic National Stockpile.
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