USNS Comfort is LAID UP in maintenance, won't be ready for WEEKS

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Roxana Tiron @rtiron

Breaking: The Comfort hospital ship won’t be able to go to NYC for weeks, @ChiefPentSpox says. Ship is in maintenance in Norfolk, Va., and Pentagon is now expediting maintenance

2:11 PM - Mar 18, 2020

Are you fucking KIDDING me?

[uponit7771]

1. They can't even get the simple simple stuff right ... jus, ... damn

[dalton99a]

2. Fucking moron just makes up shit on the spot

[irisblue]

3. JC on a trailer hitch.

[malaise]

4. You mean they didn't check that before he ran his fucking mouth

[2naSalit]

22. It's just flollow up on the previous slaps at Cuomo

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like the expired supplies already sent to NY. He will make it look like he's doing a good thing but is really fucking up the ability of the state to address this situation so he can cause and then call them a failure.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. I have not heard about that ship/plans for it, etc

Can ya fill me in, purty pls??

[malaise]

27. Here sis

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-hospital-ships-heading-coronavirus-battle-navy-says-they-n1163081
<snip>
President Donald Trump is sending in the Navy to battle the coronavirus crisis, specifically two massive hospital ships.

They’re in “tip top shape,” Trump said Wednesday, and will likely be launched “in the next week or so."

But it’s anybody’s guess when those ships will come in.

The USNS Comfort, which Trump said is bound for New York Harbor, is currently undergoing maintenance somewhere on the east coast and there are no medical personnel on board, NBC News has learned.

The other ship, the USNS Mercy, is also being spruced-up and lacks a medical crew. It was not immediately known where the Mercy would be deployed.
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Don't rule out that he'll tell the NY Governor to drop all the ongoing cases against him

[dixiegrrrrl]

43. Many thanks.

How is the situation where you are, btw. ???

[getagrip_already]

28. it's roughly a 1000 bed floating hospital with icu and surgical units...

It was intended for non-corona related patients to take some of the pressure off of the main hospitals and free up beds.

[2naSalit]

31. Shitneck spewed a lie

saying that the afore mentioned hospital ship was going to NYC to help with the needs there. If it's in repairs, it ain't goin' nowhere any time soon. Said it at the lie to the camera fest earlier today. The other ship is to go north up the CA coast. Wonder what its status is. There were several thousand requested medical masks sent that were expired. O guess. Not sure about that one but it seems the grudge is still alive and well in the orangeanus.

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. I've been deep into other things..

so that I missed his blah blah about the ships.
And of course, know better that believe him. I just assume everything he says is a lie.
Looks like someone whispered in his ear about the ships...wonder if it was Jared, among his other duties of acting President.

[2naSalit]

37. Funny but I was half asleep on the couch and I heard that part.

[dixiegrrrrl]

42. Tv????

We only do computers/internet, but Twitter, DU, and a couple other sites pretty much keep us up todate.
And Maddow, of course.

[2naSalit]

44. NPR.

I get offline when I'm going to lay down. I didn't know a presser was coming when I got horizontal but when the music stopped, I noticed and I guess I was sort of listening to hear why there was no music. I wasn't completely awake but I heard that part and digested it right away.

[underpants]

26. Do we HAVE the website either?

Or was I supposed to forget about that too?

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Where is USNS Mercy, did Trump decommission her?

[Kaleva]

13. I believe that ship is on the west coast.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Off the coast of San Diego.

[eShirl]

6. commandeer the cruise ships

[lpbk2713]

20. There are five in Port Canaveral that have been tied up for days.

Some times one or two will go out to sea to
allow others to come in for fuel and provisions.

Link: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-80.616/centery:28.412/zoom:15

[uponit7771]

25. ..👍🏼, pay the cruise companies for their use

[atreides1]

30. Not gonna work

They would still have to be refitted and crewed, in order to be of any use...

[Turbineguy]

7. What? Trump's helpers doing homework?

That would put them in grave danger of being competent.

[2naSalit]

33. Way too late for that.

More like stumbled onto something that might be a little bit helpful which they will see as a major sacrifice on their part to allow it.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. No one will say it, but I bet they didn't have a budget for it -- until now.

[2naSalit]

34. Already made off with the funds for the original commission. ...nt

[Sgent]

38. Remember when Trump

reallocated the military budget to build a wall?

[Baitball Blogger]

39. I feel sorry for the person who writes his biography.

So many mishaps to include in the years and months leading up to COVID-19.

[Sunriser13]

46. circa 2030 - Amazon announces release of Volume 72

[RockRaven]

9. More negligence. The minute the virus became known in China they should have started expediting.

This is why you have a pandemic response team, this is why you listen to experts who tell you things you don't want to hear, this is why you enact their expert advice before the problem fully blooms.

[exboyfil]

11. Problem is heads I win, tails I win

He orders it and it goes off without a hitch - victory for leadership

There are hitches - then it is big government's fault

[exboyfil]

10. They should have already been deployed

I assumed they were. Shame on me. Of course I am not responsible for running the country.

[malaise]

29. Same shit with Puerto Rico

after the hurricane

[rufus dog]

12. With each event, the more I think it isn't incompetence

But rather direction from Vladi.

[Grammy23]

14. He made it sound like the ship was pulling into the harbor

that very moment. Asshat. It was a little bit of relief until we find out (as usual) he was talking out his ass.

[blitzen]

15. But our President said it is in "tip-top" shape! n/t

[exboyfil]

16. Another really stupid question

Why are both hospital ships undergoing maintenance at the same time?

[Wounded Bear]

17. Trump's a salesman. Promising shit he can't deliver is in his DNA...

[MoonlitKnight]

18. It might make sense long term to add a couple more

Considering increased hurricanes and how useful they can be in situations like this.

[link:https://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4625&tid=200&ct=4|

[exboyfil]

19. I wonder if the pandemic response plan of Obama's still exists

I would suspect stuff like this was addressed.

[littlemissmartypants]

36. I read here early this morning that the plans were found in the trash. nt

[EX500rider]

23. Issue is she is 45 years old with steam propulsion.

Both hospital ships are from converted oil tankers built circa 1975.
That's old for steel & steam ships, makes for more time in the yard fixing stuff.

[getagrip_already]

32. they can likely tow it faster than they can fix it....

It doesn't need propulsion or power. It just needs a dock to tie off to. Shore power will do until they can get generators working.

[gladium et scutum]

41. Still have to assemble

The medical force aboard the ship. When in port USA the medical detachment as a few dozen technicians to maintain the spaces, the equipment and the inventory of non perishable medical supplies. When prepping for a mission, the 1000 or so Drs, RNs, lab techs, etc are stripped from the Naval hospitals and clinics on the East and West coast.

[Rhiannon12866]

40. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[IcyPeas]

45. It'll be weeks.....

However, neither of the 1,000-patient ships are ready to go anywhere. Both are currently in-port undergoing maintenance work and lack medical crews. It will likely take weeks, before both ships set off to their destinations. And even when the floating hospitals do arrive at their berths, they will not be taking on COVID-19 patients.

....

The USNS Comfort, which is being worked on in Norfolk, Va., is not expected to arrive in New York Harbor until sometime next month. The USNS Mercy, which is in San Diego, Calif., can be prepared sooner but it takes several days to bring aboard staff and medical equipment — and its final destination has yet to be identified.

more:
https://time.com/5805900/hospital-ships-coronavirus/

[mmbrevo]

47. Due to money trump stole from the military to build his stupid wall?