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WASHINGTONSaying there was no way the coronavirus could win with such amazing corporations on their side, President Donald Trump kicked off his plan to tackle the medical supply shortage Tuesday by awarding ExxonMobil an exclusive contract to drill for ventilators in the arctic.
Today, the heroic crews at ExxonMobil will travel to Alaskas Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where they will drill 6,000 feet below the earth in search of new, undiscovered mechanical breathing devices, said Trump, signing the $86 billion deal that gave the oil company sole access to survey, drill, and extract from over 30,000 square miles of vast, untapped reservoirs of respiratory ventilators.
While this crisis is a challenge, I want to assure the American people that there are millions of medical devices lying just below the arctic surface, and all we need is ExxonMobils vast network of drilling rigs to find them. Thats why were also announcing the construction of a long-distance ventilator pipeline, as well as an exclusive, multi-billion-dollar contract with Shell to begin extracting ventilators on Native American reservations throughout South Dakota.
At press time, President Trump had reportedly once again downplayed the need for medical supplies after one of ExxonMobils largest offshore tankers exploded.
https://politics.theonion.com/trump-tackles-medical-supply-shortage-by-awarding-exxon-1842588943
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)Unsettling and comforting in equal measure.
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(576 posts)That is all.