Good. I think Pritzker has been doing a decent job. Mayor Lori Lightfoot too.
FEMA Decides, Unless Trump or Jared Does
All TPM News / by Josh Marshall / 1h
The Washington Post has a new story out about the chaotic and overlapping efforts to acquire and distribute medical supplies across the country. We get yet more evidence that FEMA is routinely jumping into private transactions, either at the front end of overruling a purchase or seizing it when itâs being transported to whatever hospital or state purchased it. As my hospital system board member source told me a couple days ago this isnât just happening itâs pervasive.
According to the Post , one state is considering sending police or even the National Guard to greetchartered flights from China bringing goods. Despite FEMAâs denials there is overwhelming evidence that this is happening. And in other public comments they discuss doing it. The question is where those intercepted orders are going. And here the Post story provides the most significant morsel.
Some of the states are seeking supplies, this official said, for items they say they might need in several weeks. Decisions are made by FEMA, but recommendations sometimes come from Trump, Vice President Pence, Kushner and others based on their interactions with states.
âFEMA makes the decision, but itâs not like FEMA is going to do the opposite of what the president tells them to do,â a second official said.
This I think tells everything we need to know. FEMA makes the decisions, unless President Trump says to send stuff somewhere else. Or unless Jared Kushner does. I donât get the sense that either of these men are operating at scale enough to even try to direct everything. But that they can and do direct some of the supplies answers the question. What priorities or data would either man possibly use to overrule whatever metric of need FEMA is applying? It speaks for itself.
Democrats on the House Overisght Committee say the Postal Service âwill not survive the summerâ without âimmediateâ support.
Weâve pleaded with the White House to help.@realDonaldTrump personally directed his staff not to do so.
Fuck. His work lives on, and is ESPECIALLY helpful during a pandemic.
I think the stupidity knows no state or nationality. Itâs getting bad here in Tijuana, and Iâm quite positive itâs due to the idiots like my neighbors, who insist on gathering to drink and party every weekend in defiance of quarantine.
Meanwhile, the pandemic is getting worseâŠ
âA lot of people thought news about the virus was exaggerated,â Olvera Cåñez said. âMexican authorities werenât doing anything.â
Police âcruisingâ in their golf cart around Helsinki-Vantaa airport.
âWhoâs going to pay for it?â
It seems that making real N95 masks is tricky. I hope the new places making masks arenât just kludging it.
