Trump administration dickering over the cost of ventilators while Americans die.

Massachusetts Coronavirus Update: 

25 Deaths, Over 2,400 





Trump administration's FEMA is reviewing the cost ($1 billion) to produce thousands of desperately needed ventilators for Americans suffering from Covid-19.

NYTimes: "The shortage of ventilators has emerged as one of the major criticisms of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus. The need to quickly equip hospitals across the country with tens of thousands more of the devices to treat those most seriously ill with the virus was not anticipated despite the Trump administration’s own projection in a simulation last year that millions of people could be hospitalized. And even now, the effort to produce them has been confused and disorganized. 

At the center of the discussion about how to ramp up the production of ventilators is Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a senior White House aide, who has told people that he was called in two weeks ago by Vice President Mike Pence to produce more coronavirus test kits and who has now turned his attention to ventilators.

He has been directing officials at FEMA in the effort. Two officials said the suggestion to wait on the General Motors offer came from Col. Patrick Work, who is working at FEMA. Some government officials expressed concern about the possibility of ordering too many ventilators, leaving them with an expensive surplus. 

 As the agency has sorted through offers, trying to weigh production ability and costs, hospitals in New York and elsewhere are reporting a desperate need for more ventilators, which are critical in treating respiratory problems in a fast-rising tide of severe coronavirus cases."

INSANE! In the time of a world pandemic, the Trump administration is dickering over the price of saving Americans' lives!


This is what happens when you elect a malignant narcissist as POTUS. In a time of desperate need for medical equipment to save American lives, the malignant narcissist needs adulation FIRST, and then MAYBE, the governors of states with thousands of dying Americans will get his attention and have the needed medical equipment sent to those desperately sick Americans. But first you must kiss the malignant narcissist's arse:


“You want Ventilators & Masks from the Federal Government’s Reserves to treat your citizens? Well, Governors have to treat me well, it’s a two-way street.”

President Trump,
March 24, 2020


And here is the malignant narcissist telling governors of states with  thousands of sick and dying Americans that he "feels" that the need for thousands of ventilators is not correct. Trump's "feelings" are to be believed above what the governors and medical experts KNOW.

If there is a worse inhuman monster to ever have been POTUS, I can't come up with his name.

Trump's name leads all the rest.


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