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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 300,000 masks the White House sent Illinois were the wrong ones.
Pritzker: "I can't emphasize enough how much we need the federal government to step up and amplify the size of their PPE deliveries to Illinois and frankly across the nation."
Link to tweet
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)POS we have in government. They want Americans to die.
We need to scream this out in unison.
This regime hates Americans Period.
didn't do it himself. Find who actually did and expose him/her and enquire why.
BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,636 posts)He doesn't like blue states.
procon
(15,805 posts)so it's not surprising that his hand picked chorus of praise singing sycophants are just as incompetent as he is. Illinois is lucky Trump's morons didn't ship them Mardi Gras masks..
dlk
(11,578 posts)Nice folks, those Republicans.
crickets
(25,983 posts)eta- Either way, it's criminal negligence.
dlk
(11,578 posts)Canoe52
(2,949 posts)djacq
(1,634 posts)is killing off his supporters now rural states are feeling it now.
Aussie105
(5,437 posts)The N95 masks are the only good ones.
I've seen local shops sell useless masks. $2.50 each. When I see someone wearing one, I tell them they are no protection at all.
Only thing available locally, so what to do?
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)serve the main purpose of keeping you safer: by reducing the chance of you touching your own face with your unwashed hands.
Now, it's true that any old mask won't keep you from infecting others, but you should NOT be out and about if you coughing and sneezing ANYWAY.
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)A surgical mask will reduce the chance that you may infect others (if you are asymptomatic) by catching larger droplets you are exhaling. It is also a visible sign that you are taking this seriously and are concerned. Sort of an anti-MAGA badge. I always wear one if Im shopping. I hate it because it makes my glasses fog.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)But again, one shouldn't be out AT ALL if you are coughing or sneezing. Mask or no mask.
Healthy folks just breathing doesn't spread droplets.
But sure, wearing a mask anyway sends the right message.
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)Where many got sick after choir practice - the authorities concluded that it could be spread through the air. The article makes it sound like they were very cautious about following the guidelines but 45 of 60 were infected anyway.
https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-infiltrated-mt-vernon-choir-killing-2-members-and-infecting-others
xmas74
(29,676 posts)It's allergy season. Wearing a mask tells people I'm thinking of them-and keeps some of the pollen diwn.
GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)I am astounded by the incompetence.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)and he sure is one now.
And that Navarro...he didn't fall too far from the ol' fuck-up tree either.
Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)Trump will never win Illinois, and he therefore hates the people there.
Same, I believe, with California, Washington, New York. But those states have the big money Republican oligarchs who will yank his leash from time to time.
DENVERPOPS
(8,845 posts)the wrong masks were sent accidentally......
Bull shit on that lame happening...........
A purposeful Charley Foxtrot........
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)too much of this is happening to blue states only. Expired equipment, broken vents and now this. It is a pattern, by design.
DENVERPOPS
(8,845 posts)And the place I feel sorry for the most is Detroit. No money, no capability to fight it due to budget cuts, no great politicians, despised by Trump and Republicans, they are really really really screwed.
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Comrade?
padah513
(2,506 posts)I think the poster was saying that Trump sent the ones he meant to send.
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,845 posts)It ties in with his proclaiming that the health workers are merely stealing them anyway. Taking all that he sends, out the back door, and selling them at a profit on eBay.
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Like broken ventilators to CA. He sent the ones he feels CA deserves.
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,845 posts)And leave the Fed money safe for Corporate bailouts, Trump's personal, non-accountable half trillion dollar fund, and still have tax payer's dollars available for even more future tax refunds to the 1% just before the elections......
He sends all the broken ventilators to a blue state and lets THEM pay to have them repaired, depleting their states money.
Two birds with one stone......Blue State - Repair costs......Trump's gloating over his quasi intelligence in turning it into a win-win for the Republican cabal.....
CABAL......everyone look that word up in the dictionary.!!!!!!!!! The "most perfect", "most beautifulest word" Trump type words exactly and precisely describing TRUMP AND HIS MOST CORRUPT REPUBLICAN PARTY EVER IN OUR ENTIRE AMERICAN HISTORY.................
This is what is meant by the phrase: "The best government Putin's money can buy"
Read it and weep, and learn how to speak/write in Russian dear people. Coming to a country near you.........
ck4829
(35,091 posts)superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)By making it obsolete, incompetent and terrifyingly stupid.
A reich wing wet dream
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Seriously? They get made by different companies, have different product-codes, serial-numbers, specifications. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES! For f***s sake.
How the hell could that mix-up happen?
"A mask is a mask. Derp, derp, derp."
Yeah. The same way a screw is a screw.