FEMA Says It Will Stop Paying For Cloth Face Masks For Schools

[Efilroft Sul]

Source: NPR

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is changing the policy on the personal protective equipment that it will pay for. Federal officials announced the changes during a call Tuesday with state and tribal emergency managers, many of whom expressed concerns about the new policy.

The changes mean that in most cases, FEMA will no longer reimburse states for the cost of cloth face coverings at nonemergency settings, including schools, public housing and courthouses. The policy goes into effect on Sept. 15.

On the call, Keith Turi, FEMA assistant administrator for recovery, explained that as of that date, personal protective equipment for nonemergency settings will be classified as "increased operating costs" for public services, and thus will not be covered by the agency's Public Assistance Program.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/01/908413181/fema-says-it-will-stop-paying-for-cloth-face-masks-for-schools

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Nice.

[NurseJackie]

2. ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Those golf cart rentals don't grow on trees. NT

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I guess masks will simply be added to the list of supplies

the parents will be sending in to school.

[Iliyah]

5. Oh really. . ..

since shithole, FEMA has gone down hill and just as partisan as their leader.

[ananda]

6. Boy they're out to get poor kids and parents!

I've never seen an administration so openly
target minorities and immigrants, especially
in such a deadly way.

I believe it's tantamount to genocide.

[Marthe48]

17. I agree

n/t

[RhodeIslandOne]

7. Pure Evil

[kimbutgar]

8. So it appears they want to do the herd immunity

And let the corona virus wipe out those they consider bottom feeders. That includes children, and the elderly.

History will not look good on these dark years 2016-2021.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

10. My first thought...

... they are setting up a policy of herd immunity. All evidence is that anyone afflicted with CV-45 never recovers, though the MSM likes to say, "... the state has 600 recoveries", from CV-45. By all accounts, they are damaged for life.

[bluedigger]

9. Fires across the West, Derechos in Iowa, flooding in Louisiana.

Let FEMA do FEMA.

[riversedge]

11. DAMN.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Team tRump wants to kill us all.

[iluvtennis]

13. Yet the ornage ass get on TV at every opportunity and says there is nothing that states asked

for that his admin didn't provide.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Maybe they are trying to cut costs to make sure that the

unemployment checks will be covered.

https://www.fema.gov/disasters/coronavirus/governments/supplemental-payments-lost-wages-guidelines

Extra $300 Unemployment Benefits: Here's When Every State Is Sending out the New Weekly Bonus Payments
https://money.com/extra-unemployment-lost-wages-state/

Roughly a week after the $600 payments expired at the end of July, President Donald Trump issued an order authorizing FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) to work with the states and pay up to $300 per week in extra unemployment benefits to eligible recipients. The extra $300 payments were approved for only three weeks, retroactive to the week beginning August 1, though officials have said the program could be extended.

❤lmsp

[Efilroft Sul]

15. Interesting possibility. I'll have to be on watch for such tie-ins you mentioned. Thanks!

[littlemissmartypants]

16. First thing I thought of when I saw your post. You're welcome. ❤ nt

[lark]

18. Killing us every single way that's possible.

I was going to say humanly possible, but he is an inhuman hate machine so I removed that part.