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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:44 AM Jul 2020

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How did the US end up with nurses wearing garbage bags?

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A tech C.E.O. was asked to start a Web site that would match hospitals and medical suppliers. What followed provides an inside glimpse of the dysfunction emanating from Trump’s Washington in the midst of a pandemic.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-coronavirus-and-how-the-united-states-ended-up-with-nurses-wearing-garbage-bags

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How did the US end up with nurses wearing garbage bags? (Original Post) soothsayer Jul 2020 OP

I believe it is called "vote republican" no matter how bad or corrupt the candidate is! justhanginon Jul 2020 #1

shithole's FEMA . . Iliyah Jul 2020 #2

Trump turned the US into a shithole country. Our hospitals... NurseJackie Jul 2020 #3

Rachel Maddow, at least a month ago, reported that FEMA also sent Mike 03 Jul 2020 #4

See post 6 below underpants Jul 2020 #7

When Shitstain became President JI7 Jul 2020 #5

👍 underpants Jul 2020 #6

Yet we seem to have an endless supply of tear gas, rubber bullets, rzemanfl Jul 2020 #8

Because the Fish rots from the Head Down!! riversedge Jul 2020 #9

It's the result of skimming off the top of everything JDC Jul 2020 #10

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)

1. I believe it is called "vote republican" no matter how bad or corrupt the candidate is!

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:48 AM

Jul 2020

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

2. shithole's FEMA . .

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:50 AM

Jul 2020

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)

3. Trump turned the US into a shithole country. Our hospitals...

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:51 AM

Jul 2020

Trump turned the US into a shithole country. Our hospitals should be better than third-world clinics, or mobile field-medic-tents of WWII.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)

4. Rachel Maddow, at least a month ago, reported that FEMA also sent

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:52 AM

Jul 2020

plastic medical gowns that had no arm sleeves or even holes to insert the arms through.

This whole miserable disaster defies belief.

underpants

(182,823 posts)

7. See post 6 below

Reply to Mike 03 (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:09 AM

Jul 2020

And
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213802675

JI7

(89,250 posts)

5. When Shitstain became President

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:54 AM

Jul 2020

underpants

(182,823 posts)

6. 👍

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:57 AM

Jul 2020

rzemanfl

(29,565 posts)

8. Yet we seem to have an endless supply of tear gas, rubber bullets,

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:16 AM

Jul 2020

and such forth.

riversedge

(70,239 posts)

9. Because the Fish rots from the Head Down!!

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:37 AM

Jul 2020

JDC

(10,128 posts)

10. It's the result of skimming off the top of everything

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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 10:09 AM

Jul 2020

That is the Trump and Kishner way.

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