tRumps refusal to use DPA and the impact. [View all]

[rufus dog]

Let's take N95 masks as an example. Will use round numbers to demonstrate impact.

Hospital A needs 100,000 masks.

Places order for 100k masks, but on back order.

Someone up the chain says, we better get 100k more on order. (likely more than a 2x multiplier)

Hospital workers rightfully get worried and share concerns with family. Family members go out and try to procure masks on eBay or Amazon, creating demand for 100k more masks.

Local businesses who use N95 masks try to help, Company A buys 100k mask and Company B buys 100k masks for Hospital A. For good measure they each place orders for 100k to make sure they can keep their own businesses running.

The Orange Shitstain tells state they are on there own. State procurement hits up all the local hospitals for requirements. Then goes out and buys millions of masks with some safety stock, so the Hospital A 100k requirement gets ordered again @ 125k masks.

So the demand for Hospital A (100k) gets amplified and becomes a requirement for 1 million masks.

At some point all the orders will be fulfilled and there will be too many masks. Until then it is all a cluster, with masks being shipped to locations that do not have the immediate requirement for the masks.

Additionally you have opened the potential for fraud with counterfeit mask being shipped through the uncontrolled supply chain.

So let's say Hospital A gets 100k masks from alternative sources, gets them in the backdoor and then finds out they are useless. First thing they do is go place orders for more masks.

It is inexcusable for team tRump not to step in and take control. Sometimes the supply chain needs to be centralized and controlled, that way the approved suppliers are dealing with one agency and counterfeits can be minimized.

Some times you have to roll up your fucking sleeves and be a shipping clerk you fat orange piece of waste.