Kushner coronavirus effort said to be hampered by inexperienced volunteers

[steve2470]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushner-coronavirus-effort-said-to-be-hampered-by-inexperienced-volunteers/2020/05/05/6166ef0c-8e1c-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

The coronavirus response being spearheaded by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has relied in part on volunteers from consulting and private equity firms with little expertise in the tasks to which they were assigned, exacerbating chronic problems in obtaining supplies for hospitals and other needs, according to numerous government officials and a volunteer involved in the effort.

About two dozen employees from Boston Consulting Group, Insight, McKinsey and other firms have volunteered their time — some on paid vacation leave from their jobs and others without pay — to aid the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to administration officials and others familiar with the arrangement.

Although some of the volunteers have relevant backgrounds and experience, many others were poorly matched with the jobs they were assigned, including those given the task of securing personal protective equipment, or PPE, for hospitals nationwide, according to a complaint filed last month with the House Oversight Committee.

The complaint, obtained by The Washington Post, was submitted by a volunteer who has since left the group and who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from the administration. Key elements of the complaint were confirmed by six administration officials and one outside adviser to the effort, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

[Iliyah]

1. I'll say it comes from the top . ..

[riversedge]

2. and the fact that Kushner and the Trumps are making deals with private companies Sucks. Dems have

been calling for a NATIONAL non political response to cover these needs to purchase PPE!!

[Solly Mack]

3. Uh, like Kushner has experience?

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Sure looking like

Mercer is ridding behind the curtain once again. This whole show has Bannon and Mercer stench to it. Yahoo news pushed a story today about who is really running the scam show and Mercer name popped up.

[Alex4Martinez]

5. None of them have any experience providing worthwhile services or goods.

private equity firms?

Yeah, that's not gonna help.

[Walleye]

6. Nepotism and cronyism. Banana republicans

I’m suspicious of anybody who works for no pay

[Wounded Bear]

8. I don't mind the no pay part as much as the no experience part...

[Wounded Bear]

7. Pretty much how Bush handled Iraq...

brought in a lot of kids right out of school, many of them Liberty U grads, and told them to "build a country."

We still haven't recovered from that clusterfuck.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Spot on. They selected them by ideology rather than relevant skill or experience

and everything fell to pieces.

[winstars]

9. So people with no experience cannot do a certain job? I'll write that down to remember...

[crickets]

10. Who could have guessed?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. No shit

A fine example of the Dunning-Krueger effect.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Basically, isn't that what he is?

An inexperienced volunteer? Or are they paying him these days?

[tanyev]

13. If only the government had already had pandemic experts on staff, ready to go.

[crickets]

15. +1000000

[struggle4progress]

16. "At this time, we cannot accept any volunteers who might know more than Don or Jared"

[ProfessorGAC]

17. That Can't Be A Qualification!

It would exclude almost everybody!