Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks

Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks by nprz on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:30PM (#22670882)

It truly is insane how quickly the severity of the crisis ramped up. Monday co-workers on slack were messaging how the flu was more of a worry, after Wednesday it was mandatory work from home. And it truly feels like medical authorities were as caught off guard as the rest of us. Who was on guard duty? Was no one monitoring the situation? No one thought to increase production of PPE or RNA tests?

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Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks by epistasis on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:49AM (#22690839)

I think this single news story is the best answer to your question:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-n...

My other comment on this was flagged, which had far more links. I'm not 100% sure why it was flagged other than the voting revealed it to be very controversial.

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Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks by fragmede on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:08PM (#22676416)

The US had a pandemic response team, who's job it would have been to be on guard duty. They were "let go" in 2018 to reduce wasteful government spending.

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Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks by 8bitsrule on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:03PM (#22671474)

Taking credit for good things that happen 'on my watch', but not bad things ... looks remarkably similar to privatizing profits and socializing costs.

Same old 3-card Monte. 'Look over here!'

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Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks by ra5 on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:40PM (#22671339)

I think you’re being downvoted because of that very first sentence (no matter how much I hate the guy, laying the blame 100% on his frail shoulders seems a bit hyperbolic).

But I don’t see what’s downvotable (if not agreeable) about the rest of what was said

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Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks by epistasis on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:04AM (#22672123)

In defense of my first statement: There's really nobody else to blame that I can see. Perhaps incompetence in the FDA and CDC management, but those are his people, not the rank and file. This is all had management and ignoring expertise, and there is only one person to blame for that.

Other countries with more developed healthcare systems and more competent leadership are staving this off quickly, which will let them return to full economic activity much more quickly with proper covid surveillance and tracking.

Here in the US, others have stepped up in the absence of the usual leadership that is provided by federal monitoring agencies. It's like we were attacked by invading ground forces, but the president had fired all the generals down to the lieutenants. We have other private individuals stepping up to our defense, but the normal defense infrastructure has been gutted.

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Re:Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks by seganddr on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:51PM (#22671410)

"Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised"

https://apnews.com/ce014d94b64e98b7203b873e56f80e9a

"Quick left amid a bitter U.S. trade dispute with China when she learned her federally funded post, officially known as resident adviser to the U.S. Field Epidemiology Training Program in China, would be discontinued as of September, the sources said. The U.S. CDC said it first learned of a “cluster of 27 cases of pneumonia” of unexplained origin in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 31."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...

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