1/ From Heather Richardson’s newsletter today: “The president put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of the nation’s response to the pandemic. Kushner sidelined career officials who knew how to source medical supplies, for example, in favor of young volunteers...
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2/ ...from investment banks and consulting firms. The administration touted what its leaders called an innovative public-private partnership to respond to the country’s needs, but a report from Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) documented that as late as March 2, ...
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3/... .the administration was urging American businesses to take advantage of the booming market in personal protective equipment (PPE) to export masks, ventilators, and PPE to other countries. Porter’s office examined export records to show that in February 2020...,

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4/ ... ‘the value of U.S. mask exports to China was 1094% higher than the 2019 monthly average.’ Meanwhile, American health care providers were wearing garbage bags, and people were sewing their own masks.”
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5/ 560,000 Americans have died of Covid, sacrificed at the altar of private enterprise. Trump’s admin knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of people to die. Yet, like many architects of unjust wars like Viet Nam & Iraq, they then retire from government to live lives of luxury.
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6/There should be a National Commission to research the US govt’s criminal neglect of the American people during a pandemic that’s already killed 560,000. This will be a stain on our history - not just the tragedy of the pandemic but the crassness of a government that didn’t care
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Replying to @marwilliamson
@PPEtoheros
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You should also look into why the Trump administration ignored CDC recommendations to stockpile and use elastomeric respirators for pandemics and why they refused to let the public and news organizations know about their recommendations to use them. usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

Reusable respirators protect doctors and nurses against coronavirus, they aren't in the national...

Reusable respirators protect against the coronavirus just as well as N95 face masks. But the feds didn't buy them.

usatoday.com
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Masking harms people & society w/out any real benefit. It was only imposed thru the power of propaganda & the desire to socially conform. But the psychological training of the public to comply w/ an absurd dictate with a direct negative personal impact sets an ominous precedent.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
We need a Katie Porter here in the UK to challenge our criminally corrupt government. The same money is behind the Brexit bandits as was behind the t**p regime.