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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by mirimir on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:06PM (#22624012)
With a larger budget, they could have done both. And why was their budget so limited?
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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by tzfld on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:38AM (#22626848)
How much of a budget would you need to stockpile like 10 million masks? I don't think it is a cost problem.
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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by mirimir on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:19PM (#22631262)
No, it's not a cost issue. But I suspect that it was a consequence of meeting fixed cost reduction targets, and being something where cutting had no immediate impact.
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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by Rebelgecko on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:13PM (#22624053)
Probably in part due to the 2012 sequester
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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by mirimir on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:41PM (#22624204)
More generally, the Budget Control Act of 2011.
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