It was one thing among several. And I deliberately put it in there to show that I wasn’t addressing only one side.
Give it a rest. You’re proving my point. Proudly so, it appears.
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I think you’ve made a false assessment of what was said by Kushner.
Kushner is correct in saying the National Stockpile is not something the states are supposed to rely on, states need their own.
The states, all of them, have their own emergency supplies. They write their own laws which decide how many beans, brooms and band-aids go into their stockpile. They stock consumables, food, water, fuel, etc… to take care of their state, counties and cities, in case of a flood, tornado etc… It is each state’s responsibility to make sure their emergency supplies are always stocked and resupplied, in accordance with their own laws.
Any state that refuses to take care of it’s own citizens, where their only emergency plan is a one page note that says “call the federal government for help,” well that’s a state government that needs to be tossed out, and the people need to elect a new one.
It’s one thing if a state followed their own laws and had the designated amount of PPE, etc… in their stockpiles. And then when a pandemic like this one hits, they sadly find out they underestimated.
However, it’s another thing altogether, if the state government chose to ignore those laws and decided not to stock the required items, because their politicians decided to redirect that money for pet projects that have nothing to do with response to a state emergency.
FEMA, the CDC, NIH, or any federal government agency, is slow and ponderous, with a one-size-fits-all foot print. The state and local governments are the ones who know intimately what the needs and wants their citizens are.
When wildfires rage in California, they don’t sit on their hands and wait for the feds to show up. When there is a disaster in a state, it’s the state that immediately steps into action. Waiting for the feds to show up in a week or so later is not a good plan.
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Could have spent $14 billion, and made sure they restocked the national stockpile, eh? Just saying.
BTW, that carbohydrate heavy food pyramid which preceded the obesity problem was money well spent.
When our regulations governing which supplies and how many of them are required to be resupplied to the stockpile are followed, that’s just how it is. I don’t know of anyone complaining that we have a stockpile for national emergencies.
As for the private sector, it’s private industry who are coming to the rescue with test kits, vaccine research, supplying enough medical supplies, drugs and PPE.
I don’t know anyone complaining about any of those things.
What I do hear are legitimate complaints when regulations for the stockpile are not being followed, or when some few companies or distributors are trying to gouge prices.
All I see are people with actual and legitimate complaints about select examples observed within both our government and the private sector.
So it’s not just Trump but Kushner too who’s blameless eh? I literally watched dude say it. On national TV. Two feet from Trump.
And then the website got changed just so Kushner could be claimed to have spoken “the truth”.
So not only are we seeing doublethink in action but altering of reality after the fact as well.
Ministry of Truth stuff.
And it really works.
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So why did private industry wait until now?
You think private industry would spontaneously create a coordinated response to a pandemic?
There’s really no justification to give the states a pass.
An outbreak like this or worse was, and remains an inevitability.
They could have been stocking up supplies for decades for such an event and simply chose not to.
This was an inevitable and nobody with a background in public health or epidemiology that didn’t see it coming needs to have their asses canned.
Those who have not been strongly urging their state and local gov’ts to do so deserve to have their asses canned.
Any of those who were warned and refused to act need to be booted out of office.
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What the hell is this?
Nobody has been suggesting disaster relief should be privatized.
Stop flinging ■■■■ to cover for your own failures and inadequacies since you first posted about this outbreak and swore there was nothing particularly concerning about it.
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That’s BS, conservatives have never campaigned to defund disaster relief or to privatize it.
“Monkeys Flinging Poo at The Zoo”
Correct, the Federals sole role here is to support the states when they are overwhelmed.
Local, county, and state emergency and public health officials are responsible for their own response including being prepared.
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If Congress believed that it was the role of the Federal government to see that the hospitals in every state are adequately supplied with equipment, then such a bill could have been proposed (and hopefully vetoed). As it stands, it is the states primary responsibility. In 2015 NY considered the option of buying sufficient ventilators for any possible future health crisis and rejected it for the cheaper process of determining which patients would need it most.
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Someone at the New York Post needs to learn math.
If $576 million is half a percent of New York’s state budget, the Post believes the state has a $115 TRILLION budget.
Not to mention the fact that yes…there IS a ventilator shortage…and shortage of PPE…due to the pandemic being worldwide and peaking in many countries at the same time.
The Post is just trying to shift blame to someone else for that.
And once again, had the states done their prep over the last several decades as they should have done there would have been no panic and no shortages period.
You prep for a disaster in good times, then you don’t have to suffer when the inevitable comes along and kicks us in the face.
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And where are you wanting to shift the blame to?
Who is responsible for equipping NY hospitals?
Defending the nation against coronavirus fails if any one locality fails since the virus doesn’t respect borders.
Leaving response primarily to each state or local government is a recipe for failure.
The war analogy holds…we are being invaded by a foreign nation, and the federal government’s response would be for states and local entities to be chiefly responsible for their own defense.
That would be stupid.
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Hospitals are generally not run by the federal government.
Why do States have health departments, and often cities, if this is all on the federal government?
Are they running these departments for no reason?
Yes, the CDC and federal task force are doing their duty in providing advice, both to the President and the states. They do not run every aspecdt of healthcare in this country and hopefully never will.
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Weird how in a forum devoted to national politics the President keeps coming up.
It’s more like when Dem controlled States spend taxpayer money on liberal policies & causes such as massive welfare, windmills and solar panels & green subsidies instead of their health services and equipment. 
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