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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 12:33 PM Mar 2020

FEMA administrator says more masks are being shipped from stockpile amid shortage

What? We have a national stockpile and they're just getting around to dispersing it after pleas for help? He sounds as inept as iq45.


FEMA administrator says more masks are being shipped from stockpile amid shortage
57 mins ago


Critical medical gear is still in short supply as the nation grapples with new coronavirus, but Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor said on ABC's "This Week," that masks are in the midst of shipping from the national stockpile, but could not provide details on a concrete timeline.
a man wearing a suit and tie: FEMA Administrator, Peter Gaynor, speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House, on March 21, 2020, in Washington. © Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images FEMA Administrator, Peter Gaynor, speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House, on March 21, 2020, in Washington.

"They're shipping today, they shipped yesterday, they'll ship tomorrow," Gaynor said on Sunday.

"When you say 'they,' how many? Which masks? The new masks?" Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz pressed.

"I mean, it is hundreds of thousands of millions of things that we're shipping from the stockpile. I can't give you the details about what every single state of what every single city is doing," Gaynor said. "but I'm telling you that we are shipping from our national stockpile, we're shipping from vendors, we're shipping from donations. It is happening. The demand is great."


Raddatz pushed Gaynor further on the question as the need looms from coast to coast: would health care systems become overwhelmed before masks arrive?

"We are shipping. All those supplies, to all the demands, all the asks, all the governance, every day, we are -- we're prepared to go to zero in the stockpile to meet demand," Gaynor said.


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FEMA administrator says more masks are being shipped from stockpile amid shortage (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2020 OP
Gaynor... "Hold My Beer, Brownie" C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #1
dammit there went my coffee Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #8
This guy seems really stupid. Walleye Mar 2020 #2
Shipped to whom? ICE? Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #3
Another statement from the Wellstone ruled Mar 2020 #4
Not tracking Midnightwalk Mar 2020 #5
So many things "are happening" matt819 Mar 2020 #6
where's the stockpile? Mars? stillcool Mar 2020 #7

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
5. Not tracking
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 12:48 PM
Mar 2020

Incompetence. There’s too many to count and we don’t know how many we shipped where.

You know with a spread sheet or something.

How do they know whether California vs Idaho is getting how many? How do they know whether they already shipped California’s share already when they call back later today and ask if they shipped?

Who is the recipient? Is it just going to another fema depot in California to be warehoused again?

Delegation to the state health departments might make sense The states know best where supplies are needed.

That doesn’t excuse the incompetence of not knowing. The spokesperson might not have had the numbers at hand but should have the confidence to say we’ll give out numbers tomorrow.

I might have to break quarantine later. My bullshit detector is blaring alarms and we’re getting low on batteries.

I believe supplies are being shipped but have zero trust there is a plan that is being worked. Get some competent people to come with plans and track and report on progress. It’s basic management.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
6. So many things "are happening"
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:27 PM
Mar 2020

And yet so little seems to materialize, except in the minds of trump and his cultists

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