On 3/11 Florida requested emergency supplies from fed govt.. they got everything..

[LessAspin]

On 3/11, Florida requested emergency supplies from fed. govt. to protect medical workers against coronavirus. It got everything it wanted.

Other states had only tiny slivers of their requests, including some that asked for them earlier than Florida.

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213151069

[lapfog_1]

1. now this sounds like trump...

[Girard442]

2. No president would ever sit on his hands while people in a place that didn't support him struggle.

{cough} Katrina {cough} New Orleans {cough}

[Afromania]

3. Not advocating for it but at what point does NY/Cali/ETC say we're keeping our money.

to buy what we need since you wont help us. I have no idea how it would work so maybe the thought is far fetched, but this shit is ridiculous and beyond disgusting.

[lagomorph777]

6. Good question. Why should blue states send all their money to Trump states who are stealing it?

Let the MAGAts deal with the hoax on their own!

[global1]

4. Are Red States And Blue States Being Treated Differently?.....nt

[Igel]

7. Can't tell.

The tweet is essentially rage-bait. The story is actually much less rageful.


https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-florida-got-all-the-emergency-medical-supplies-it-requested-while-other-states-did-not

The system appears to roughly conform to states’ populations, rather than the size of their requests. Florida, a state of 21 million, got all 180,000 N95 masks it wanted. Oregon, a state of 4 million, only received 40,000 of the 400,000 masks it requested, and New Jersey, a state of 9 million, got 85,000 of the 2.9 million masks it feels it needs.

It is hard to assess what constitutes a reasonable request. All states are starting with different stockpiles of supplies. Some have been hit harder than others by the virus, and some anticipate they might be. Each state is trying to secure as much as possible for its health workers, who are raising alarms that they are running out of basic supplies.

I like that. The stockpile had 12 million masks. NJ, with 9 million in population, wanted 24% of them. That last bit sounds like a tactful way of saying "hoarding." "Each person is trying to secure as much as possible for their families, who are raising alarms that they are running out of basic supplies."

ProPublica even accounts for some loud politicians.

It’s up to the states to decide what they ask for, and the agency isn’t immune to political pressure. “If a governor jumps up and down and yells and screams, it gets attention,” said Nicole Lurie, former head of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response under the Obama administration. “It probably helps to have a really loud megaphone.”

[RussBLib]

9. even during this crisis

Trump is playing politics. Should that surprise us? No. Enrage us, but not surprise us.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. Mark my words...

GOP governors with large electoral counts will get the lion’s share of supplies and resources.

[Igel]

8. Read the Pro Publica article.

It's informative. The tweet is clickbait, and it's worth the nibble.

[hack89]

10. Allocating resources by state population makes sense

considering that every state will be eventually overwhelmed.