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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan
In mid-March, a National Security Council team rushed to fix what they saw as a threat to the U.S. governments ability to function amid the advancing pandemic: a lack of masks to protect enough staff on the White House complex.
Alarmed by the small cache and the growing signs of an acute shortage of protective gear in the United States, a senior NSC official turned to a foreign government for help, according to people familiar with the situation.
The outreach resulted in a donation of hundreds of thousands of surgical masks from Taiwan, which had plentiful domestic production and had sharply curtailed the spread of the coronavirus on the island.
While the bulk of Taiwans goodwill shipment went to the Strategic National Stockpile, 3,600 were set aside for White House staff and officials, administration officials said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-us-discouraged-mask-use-for-public-white-house-team-raced-to-secure-face-coverings-from-taiwan-for-senior-staff/2020/04/15/27d815d2-7ac5-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Did they get any custom printing on those masks? El Presidente's signature, maybe? Or, HOAX! in big, bold, red letters.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)those on his staff are frightening, a mask would be an improvement.
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)Piles and piles of the smallest grains of sand that reach to Pluto and fill all the space in between ... I hate them more than that.
ret5hd
(20,482 posts)Trying to determine our level of disgust, relative to each other.
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)Apogee
crickets
(25,951 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,955 posts)Gothmog
(144,919 posts)William769
(55,142 posts)Whoever is not outraged by this is just plain fucking stupid.