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(05-09-2020 04:29 PM)fsquid Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...e=facebook

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It's the Wapo so yeah, probably not true.

(05-09-2020 04:29 PM)fsquid Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...e=facebook

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Dude it is phucking pay wall post content.

(05-09-2020 05:03 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 04:29 PM)fsquid Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...e=facebook

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Dude it is phucking pay wall post content.

Worked fine for me.

(05-09-2020 05:08 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 05:03 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 04:29 PM)fsquid Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...e=facebook

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Dude it is phucking pay wall post content.

Worked fine for me.

Post content then?

(05-09-2020 04:29 PM)fsquid Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...e=facebook

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I cant read the story---but my guess is that as usual the Wapo has framed the story as negatively as possible for the Trump Administration and has left out important information that explains the situation.

That tends to be the problem with "news" today. Everyone has picked sides and nobody is interested in explaining both sides on any story. Most people in Washington---on both sides---are reasonably intelligent and are there to "help". They simply have differing views on how to "help". But every news story is written like a dime store novel painting one side as Hitler and the other as perfect angels striving to save lives. The fact people still buy into these articles written with the intelligence of an After School Special plot line is sad.

Quote:It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

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“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.

Bowen persisted.

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“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

(05-09-2020 05:03 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 04:29 PM)fsquid Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...e=facebook

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Dude it is phucking pay wall post content.

Incognito mode

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I am sure this made it all the way to Trump’s desk. Blame Trump for it raining out your picnic FFS. Someone may have made a bad decision but it most likely was one of the career guys beings fawned over now by the MSM.

(05-09-2020 05:39 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 04:29 PM)fsquid Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...e=facebook

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I cant read the story---but my guess is that as usual the Wapo has framed the story as negatively as possible for the Trump Administration and has left out important information that explains the situation.

That tends to be the problem with "news" today. Everyone has picked sides and nobody is interested in explaining both sides on any story. Most people in Washington---on both sides---are reasonably intelligent and are there to "help". They simply have differing views on how to "help". But every news story is written like a dime store novel painting one side as Hitler and the other as perfect angels striving to save lives. The fact people still buy into these articles written with the intelligence of an After School Special plot line is sad.

Yep. You got it. WaPo is pretty predictable.

(05-09-2020 06:19 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I am sure this made it all the way to Trump’s desk. Blame Trump for it raining out your picnic FFS. Someone may have made a bad decision but it most likely was one of the career guys beings fawned over now by the MSM.

Late in the article they make the comment that the department (HHS I believe) didn't have the funds to do it at the time.

Sorry, I don't trust the People's Washington Post

"It will be really expensive and difficult to start those lines up, but we could do it."

MIke Lindell - I'm already doing it. Not difficult or expensive at all.