Massachusetts runs counter operation against feds for masks

[Midnightwalk]

I missed this story or at least the connection between the two. The thread title is mine not the article’s. The story article’s headline is just that 3 million masks were confiscated. I didn’t connect that with the story about the patriots owner flying them in. The article makes that connection.

[link:https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/3-million-masks-ordered-by-massachusetts-seized-at-port-of-ny-in-march|]

During a news conference on Thursday, Gov. Charlie Baker said he reached out to the New England Patriots when he found himself in need of assistance to bring masks from China to Massachusetts after the ones ordered by the state were confiscated at a New York Port in March.

On Thursday, the Patriots team plane “AirKraft” brought approximately 1.2 million N95 masks from China to Boston. Massachusetts National Guardsmen met the plane at Boston’s Logan Airport and offloaded the masks onto trucks to be distributed to hospitals in Massachusetts and New York.

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Gov. Baker said to the media on Thursday, the state had ordered 3 million masks through BJ’s Wholesale in early March but they were confiscated at the Port in New York, State House News Service reported. The governor did not say which agency or organization confiscated the masks. It is also unclear where the 3 million masks went.

These are the lengths governors have to go to to secure protective gear.

Btw is there an easy way to de-ampifying a link? It takes me a bit of manual deleting here and there

[SheltieLover]

1. Shitstain

told govs to go find PPE, & when they do, he steals it. I read same happened in Wyoming within the past couple of days. WTF?????🤬

[sheshe2]

2. My niece will get a mask in CCU.

I don't care what people say about Gov. Baker-R. He has been doing the right thing here.

[Vinca]

7. The New England Republican governors by and large have been doing a decent

job at handling the crisis. Sununu, who I'm no fan of, seems to have a handle on it and the Vermont governor even has new visitors staying in the stay having to quarantine for 14 days. I noticed a flashing sign at the border when I went to pick up groceries over there. Republicans seem to get crazier as they move south.

[S.E. TN Liberal]

3. Ok, this makes up for letting Tom Brady go.

[Girard442]

4. I thought it was striking that...

Massachusetts Highway Patrol people made the delivery to the Javits Center. To prevent the load from being hijacked by the Feds en route? Are we working up to an armed confrontation between state and Federal people?

[rzemanfl]

5. Wanna bet our side gets all the aircraft carriers? n/t

[Girard442]

6. I said a while back that Civil War II was underway and Washington State was the new Fort Sumter.