Video shows pallets of ventilators dumped in Miami-Dade landfill

[Demovictory9]

[roamer65]

1. WTF.

What the FUCK?????

[dewsgirl]

8. They truly wanted many of us to die.😢

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Probably some PuQ hiding the evidence of a scheme to defraud the Federal Govt ...

It is Florida, right?

I wonder if Brazil could use those right about now?

[SergeStorms]

3. So who ordered....

the ventilators that weren't approved by the FDA in the first place? I'm sure taxpayers would like to know who's wasting their money.

[stopdiggin]

11. are we sure the taxpayers are getting shafted here? -(nt)-

[apnu]

17. Ronnie DeSatan perhaps?

Wasn't he crowing early on in the COVID crisis about how he'd acquired so much awesome stuff for his state? I remember a bunch of Republican Governors making this noise. But they all sound the same to me, so its hard to tell one from the other.

[obamanut2012]

21. This has nothing to do with DeSantis or taxpayer money

[SergeStorms]

24. And you know this.....

how? The video said the importer couldn't give them the information about who ordered or imported them. They didn't say anything about ownership.

[OhioChick]

4. WTAF?

[SheltieLover]

5. Remember kushner's ventilator scam?

https://www.propublica.org/article/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-

Btw, I have to wonder if putin is happy yet?

[OhioChick]

6. Kushner also sold off all of our PPE

To the highest bidder, foreign or domestic.

[intrepidity]

7. JFC WTAF?

Heads better roll.

[OneBro]

9. Not approved for use in the US.

Only at the end of the segment did the reporter note that they were destroyed because they were not approved for use in the US, so the unnamed owner had to either trash them or ship them back to China.

[tanyev]

14. I wonder how many incompetent Trump morons are responsible for this debacle.

[AwakeAtLast]

15. And how much money was skimmed from them! n/t

[Celerity]

18. Oink

[flotsam]

26. Saw that done to a demonstrator MRI chamber...

sent over from Europe. Federal agents followed our driver to the scrap yard in the Bronx and watched while the crane operator destroy it. Import taxes would have been horrendous and as it was a demonstrator it could only be sold as a used machine.

[stopdiggin]

10. Kinda' like to know what the full story is here.

Apparently, these devices never made it on to the 'approved for use' list -- even under our emergency orders.

So -- somebody in the private sector gambled? And lost?

Am I suppose to be mad at Uncle Sam about this? Or -- something?

[Crunchy Frog]

12. I don't know why they couldn't send them to India.

I'm sure they could get a lot of use out of them. Such a waste.

[fescuerescue]

20. Why endanger the people of India with them?

If they are unsafe here, then they are unsafe for people in India too.

[Crunchy Frog]

22. It said that they weren't approved in this country, not that they weren't safe.

And India is currently getting slammed with Covid. For someone who needs a ventilator, these might very well be safer than nothing at all.

[fescuerescue]

23. If they are safe. then we should be using them

And if they aren't, they should be in the landfil.

Why this notion that they aren't good enough for us, but are good enough for people for foreigners?

[obamanut2012]

13. This is literally faux outrage, come on

They are not approved in the US, they were bought by a non-governmental agency. They should be trashed.

[harumph]

16. They should be sold to a recycler

There's probably some recoverable electronics, etc.

[fescuerescue]

19. Those are unlicensed and unregistered ventilators

Without the FDA approval, anyone who used them might have died.

[RegularJam]

25. There is no logicall connection between these two things.

1) Those are unlicensed and unregistered ventilators.

2) Without the FDA approval, anyone who used them might have died.

[fescuerescue]

27. Death isn't the only bad thing that can happen

That's true.

But FDA approval is there for a reason and the FDA has saved many lives by taking bad products off the market.