Massive amounts of medical supplies, even hospitals and medical centers, are being delivered directly to states and hospitals by the Federal Government. Some have insatiable appetites & are never satisfied (politics?). Remember, we are a backup for them. The complainers should…
The complainers should … have been stocked up in advance. That way they wouldn’t now desperately need the medical equipment that they really don’t need now, they’re just being greedy.
@ Sackbut – yes they have a shelf life of about ten years. There’s supposed to be a regular check of these things to make sure they haven’t expired and are in good condition. The job was probably eliminated because the WH didn’t know and didn’t care to know that they don’t last forever.
Same with the broken ventilators that California received. These things need to be checked and maintained or they deteriorate. The company that was contracted to do this did not have their contract renewed last June (according to Maddow).
It’s not just food that goes bad if left unattended but a lot of people don’t seem to realize this. Case in point -last year I had a drive failure in the RAID array for my cluster. No problem, thought I, we just swap in a cold spare. Oops, it’s dead. So is the other one. Aargh. Why was there no hot spare? I thought it would be OK since there is staff in the data center checking these things regularly. Oh, they were just on a shelf in someone’s office, unattended? Ah.
The complainers should … have been stocked up in advance. That way they wouldn’t now desperately need the medical equipment that they really don’t need now, they’re just being greedy.
Logic not found.
I’m hearing that the cases of face masks delivered locally from the stockpile are expired (dated 2010) and many are dry rotted.
@ Sackbut – yes they have a shelf life of about ten years. There’s supposed to be a regular check of these things to make sure they haven’t expired and are in good condition. The job was probably eliminated because the WH didn’t know and didn’t care to know that they don’t last forever.
Same with the broken ventilators that California received. These things need to be checked and maintained or they deteriorate. The company that was contracted to do this did not have their contract renewed last June (according to Maddow).
It’s not just food that goes bad if left unattended but a lot of people don’t seem to realize this. Case in point -last year I had a drive failure in the RAID array for my cluster. No problem, thought I, we just swap in a cold spare. Oops, it’s dead. So is the other one. Aargh. Why was there no hot spare? I thought it would be OK since there is staff in the data center checking these things regularly. Oh, they were just on a shelf in someone’s office, unattended? Ah.