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President Trump has been focused on shifting blame for whatever becomes of the coronavirus outbreak. And on Sunday, he set about blaming hospitals and states for the well-established shortages of equipment to deal with the situation.
During the daily White House coronavirus briefing in the Rose Garden, Trump suggested that hospitals had squandered or done worse with masks and were hoarding ventilators, and that states were requesting equipment despite not needing them.
Trumps boldest claim was about masks. He noted the current demand wasnt commensurate with what hospitals usually use and suggested masks were going out the back door.
Its a New York hospital, very its packed all the time, he said. How do you go from 10 to 20 [thousand masks per week] to 300,000? Ten [thousand] to 20,000 masks, to 300,000 even though this is different? Something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Are they going out the back door?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/29/trump-bizarrely-blames-hospitals-mask-ventilator-shortages/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)people will die.
Not one ounce of exaggeration in my comment.
As long as red state folks can pay for them both with money and votes, they will get them.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Yeah. A pandemic you asshole.
A new one every patient encounter -- that's every patient with COVID-19-like symptoms who shows up. That's every room visited.
Of course demand would go up 10 to 20 times normal when they are seeing so many infected and potentially infected patients.
Unbelievable!!!!
underpants
(182,271 posts)What's next? Truckers? Grocery store clerks?
You can't scroll 5 times on Facebook without someone praising all of those groups.
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)You're surprised at this?
Harker
(13,874 posts)Every new outrage is another window into the abyss where his soul should be.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)I hope he gets very very sick and has to rely on these people for care.