FEMA head: 'We have a ways to go' on having enough PPE

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told Congress on Wednesday the country has "a ways to go" on getting enough protective equipment for health workers fighting coronavirus, though he said the situation has been improving.

"I want to be clear: We have a ways to go on making sure we have enough PPE," Administrator Pete Gaynor said at a congressional hearing, referring to personal protective equipment. "This is not as simple as just throwing a light switch and we just magically make more."

Hospitals and doctors have been reporting shortages of masks, gowns and other protective equipment for months as the pandemic rages.

Gaynor testified that many states are reporting they now have stockpiles of equipment that could last 60 or 90 days or more.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fema-head-we-have-a-ways-to-go-on-having-enough-ppe/ar-BB173VPN?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

You've had six months to get your shit together.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. What's the matter? You already steal everyone else's PPE and now there's nothing left??

How incompetent. Grossly incompetent. Why weren't contracts immediately let out, to supply more PPE?

[spanone]

2. This is because the 'president' doesn't want you to have it....

it doesn't take six months to get it....it's on purpose

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Well no shit. I don't think there's a single nurse in this country

who would tell you, truthfully, that they are able to use their N95s AS THEY ARE INTENDED, which is to dispose of them after every single contact. You are supposed to be able to go in your patient room gowned, gloved, shoe/leg coverings, hair cover, face shield and N95 donned - and then DISPOSE ALL OF IT so as to leave all pathogens behind.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Yet Trump picks a fight with China, where we import a lot, if not all, of our PPE

I have to stop shaking my head or I'll give myself a concussion.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Then what have they been spending billions on?

[underpants]

6. What the hell have they been DOING?

I’m buying wipes gels and masks (disposable ones) for our office left and right.
I got one shipment in, disbursed it, and realized I immediately need to order more.

Obviously not the same scale or sophistication but it’s the same basic process.

Don’t forget Jared and his knucklehead buddies were running this in some one at one point.