Obama Depleted the Nation's Strategic Reserve of Ventilators, Respirators, and Surgical Masks -- Stockpiled in Case of Bioweapon Attack or Pandemic -- and Then Refused to Restock the Reserve for 8 Years, Preferring to Spend on His Socialist Priorities

He also repeatedly sought to cut the CDC's budget -- again, I assume so that he could spend that money on socialist boondoggles.

The 2005 plan created the Strategic National Stockpile of medical supplies and equipment under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services and called for the distribution of supplies from six highly secured sites to state and local sites after a pandemic "surge." This Strategic National Stockpile is totally separate from the site in Dubai that the U.S. government uses for international distribution under the Foreign Assistance Act.

According to a Center for Disease Control report published after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, 39 million N95 masks were initially distributed from the stockpile, followed by 59.5 million more in second wave. According to Johnson, the stockpile originally was about 100 million masks.

From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, there were over 60 million cases of H1N1 requiring 274,304 hospitalizations and resulting in 12,469 deaths in the United States.

After the H1N1 virus slowed down in 2010, according to Johnson, "it was important to restock." That did not happen as the national stockpile budget focused on other priorities deemed higher.

I'm sorry, I'm totally phoning it in and have been all week. I'm beat. I'm not sick, I'm not even lacking sleep. I don't have any excuses. It's just, damn, I cannot fucking write about the same fucking thing every day.

The Twitter class spends every day having hysterical meltdowns -- Twitter is their preferred self-medication for their hysteria and neuroses. They don't realize that it's actually intesifying their mental illness, because they're mentally ill. And stupid.

And the rest of us have to deal with these fucking meltbrained lunatics. They sneeze and cough and vomit their mental illness all over us every day.

15 Rush just reminded us that medical device manufacturers off shores because of the Obongo Care tax on medical devices -- such as ventilators and Trump was only able to squash that late in 2019. Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture

Meanwhile, the Galaxy Brained NeverTrump Twitter Addicts are trying to get their senile rapist Joey Fingers elected, because he'd sure teach this Coronavirus feller a lesson, you betcha and how.

Apologies.

posted by Ace at 03:07 PM

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