On 3/11 Florida requested emergency supplies from fed govt.. they got everything..
Other states had only tiny slivers of their requests, including some that asked for them earlier than Florida.
Link to tweet
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213151069
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)Girard442
(6,075 posts){cough} Katrina {cough} New Orleans {cough}
Afromania
(2,769 posts)to buy what we need since you wont help us. I have no idea how it would work so maybe the thought is far fetched, but this shit is ridiculous and beyond disgusting.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Let the MAGAts deal with the hoax on their own!
global1
(25,253 posts)The tweet is essentially rage-bait. The story is actually much less rageful.
https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-florida-got-all-the-emergency-medical-supplies-it-requested-while-other-states-did-not
The system appears to roughly conform to states populations, rather than the size of their requests. Florida, a state of 21 million, got all 180,000 N95 masks it wanted. Oregon, a state of 4 million, only received 40,000 of the 400,000 masks it requested, and New Jersey, a state of 9 million, got 85,000 of the 2.9 million masks it feels it needs.
It is hard to assess what constitutes a reasonable request. All states are starting with different stockpiles of supplies. Some have been hit harder than others by the virus, and some anticipate they might be. Each state is trying to secure as much as possible for its health workers, who are raising alarms that they are running out of basic supplies.
I like that. The stockpile had 12 million masks. NJ, with 9 million in population, wanted 24% of them. That last bit sounds like a tactful way of saying "hoarding." "Each person is trying to secure as much as possible for their families, who are raising alarms that they are running out of basic supplies."
ProPublica even accounts for some loud politicians.
Its up to the states to decide what they ask for, and the agency isnt immune to political pressure. If a governor jumps up and down and yells and screams, it gets attention, said Nicole Lurie, former head of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response under the Obama administration. It probably helps to have a really loud megaphone.
RussBLib
(9,020 posts)Trump is playing politics. Should that surprise us? No. Enrage us, but not surprise us.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)GOP governors with large electoral counts will get the lions share of supplies and resources.
Igel
(35,320 posts)It's informative. The tweet is clickbait, and it's worth the nibble.
hack89
(39,171 posts)considering that every state will be eventually overwhelmed.