FEMA administrator says more masks are being shipped from stockpile amid shortage

[left-of-center2012]

Source: ABC news

Critical medical gear is still in short supply as the nation grapples with new coronavirus, but Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor said on ABC's "This Week," that masks are in the midst of shipping from the national stockpile, but could not provide details on a concrete timeline.

"They're shipping today, they shipped yesterday, they'll ship tomorrow," Gaynor said on Sunday.

"When you say 'they,' how many? Which masks? The new masks?" Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz pressed.

"I mean, it is hundreds of thousands of millions of things that we're shipping from the stockpile. I can't give you the details about what every single state of what every single city is doing," Gaynor said. "but I'm telling you that we are shipping from our national stockpile, we're shipping from vendors, we're shipping from donations. It is happening. The demand is great."

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He could not provide details on a concrete timeline to meet the country's demand.

"We are shipping. All those supplies, to all the demands, all the asks, all the governance, every day, we are -- we're prepared to go to zero in the stockpile to meet demand," Gaynor said.

[Historic NY]

1. So we have a stockpile....

Trump wants the health officials to wash all the masks and reuse them......over and over.

[paleotn]

4. Saves money.

Donnie is a skin flint when it comes to other people's lives.

[Historic NY]

9. Even his own family..

How did I forget.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. After all this is the guy who believes you can wash coal to remove pollutants.

[dewsgirl]

2. I don't believe most of these people, with the exception of

Dr.Fauci and he is walking a fine line.

[Botany]

6. Fauci is working for the greater good of all the world

He is 79 and should be spending his time enjoying a life well lived
instead of dealing with Trump and company.

[TheFourthMind]

3. Unintelligible Trump-speak designed to avoid responsibility. n/t

[Leghorn21]

5. "hundreds of thousands of millions of things"

does not instill any faith when you talk just like dump
none whatsoever

[paleotn]

7. Sounds like he's channeling Donnie Two Scoops.

We're shipping stuff. Lots of stuff. Shipping it everywhere. Any one who asks. We're shipping day and night. Shipping, shipping, shipping. Doing a fantastic job. People can't believe how fantastic it is. Shipping stuff. Lots and lots of stuff.

One would think the head of FEMA would have a clue about what's being prioritized and where during the greatest pandemic in over a century and might give those in hard hit areas a little reassurance that their government is actually stepping up and doing it's goddamn job. But oh no. What we get is a Donnie minnie me. And we thought "Brownie" didn't have a fucking clue what he was doing.

[Owl]

8. Gaynor couldn't detail specifics about anything.

[Sugar Smack]

10. And to WHOM? ICE?

[keithbvadu2]

11. 'not a shipping clerk' says Dotard.

'not a shipping clerk' says Dotard.

Looks like it now.

[RobinA]

12. They Aren't

shipping clerks, doncha know. How many shipped to where? Details of no significance.

[SergeStorms]

13. The latest lying S.O.B. from the Trump administration.

Trump is spreading the lies around his administration a little better now. He used to tell them all.......now getting close to 20,000 since taking office, by last count, but he's started "outsourcing" the lies because he just can't keep up the pace anymore. Gaynor is just the latest lying mouthpiece shoved in front of the cameras to keep U.S. citizens misinformed. Where Trump used to tell all the lies himself, now it takes at least 20-30 administration officials to spread the necessary bullshit deep enough to cover the U.S. population so they don't discover the truth. You can't tell me this job isn't wearing Trump down!

[Ford_Prefect]

14. The reason he could not cite specifics is that there are none.

If such a stockpile exists they may possibly have begun to prepare to ship out. But to whom and by what means would have to be in place in order to prepare to ship and he couldn't say that either.

He didn't know because they only mentioned it to silence critics, not to speak a supporting fact in aid of the crisis response.

He cannot cite facts because there are none on the ground, nor sadly anywhere else that matters.

[iluvtennis]

15. I call BS. If they are shipping, they could provide the details of how many/to where. nt

[MineralMan]

16. Yes. There is a bill of lading for every shipment.

It's all in a database. A report would provide the details.

[iluvtennis]

20. Exactly. nt

[tiptonic]

17. Supply Clerk

I think we need a good 'supply clerk' !!

[rickford66]

18. Just show us the records for one shipment.

From storage to final delivery. Just one.

[Maxheader]

19. 150 nm....pretty small..

Will these masks prevent inhalation of a coronavirus cell?...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. Using the term "hundreds of thousands of millions of things" makes everything else suspect.

Numbers come as millions and hundreds of millions, or as billions. Using the words "hundreds of thousands of millions of things" tells me he's just making stuff up off the top of his head, like his boss.

Are there any competent people in Fat Donnie's swamp?

[Talitha]

23. But those "hundreds of thousands of millions of things" were PERFECT!