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The big problem with the right, is they have too much faith in the 'free market'. In times of peace and normalcy, the free market does a pretty good job of meeting the needs of the market place.
But in war time, major crises, the right, especially this president, just doesn't understand that the free market isn't as reliable to do the right thing as they and he think it is.
The job of the president, free market or not, is to protect Americans, and that includes protect Americans from pandemic diseases.
America has 4% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's covid cases.
According to data provided by Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, there were 2,910,023 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. out of 11,516,782 confirmed cases around the world
as of July 6.
This OP is but one of the reasons why Trump has failed, utterly, and why a good sizeable portion of the 200,000 people who have died, surely would be still alive, if he were a competent human being, one who had empathy for his fellow man, one who cared for people and not just the stock market, his crowd size, and his hair protecting adequately his bald spot.
BALTIMORE — The patient exhaled. She lifted her tongue for a thermometer. She raised her finger for a blood sugar test, and that’s when she started coughing. One cough can send 3,000 droplets into the air, one droplet can contain millions of coronavirus particles, and now some of those particles were heading for the face of emergency department nurse Kelly Williams. The nurse inhaled. Strapped over her mouth and nose was an N95 respirator, the disposable filtering mask that has become the world’s most reliable and coveted defense against the virus. N95s were designed to be thrown away after every patient. By this July afternoon, Williams had been wearing the same one for more than two months. To get to her, the N95 had traveled from a British factory to a Baltimore warehouse, in a supply chain as tangled and layered as the web of microscopic fibers inside the mask’s filter.
Through the powers of the Defense Production Act, President Trump ordered General Motors to make ventilators. Other companies followed, many supported by the government, until the terrifying problem of not enough ventilators wasn’t a problem at all. But for N95s and other respirators, Trump has used this authority far less, allowing major manufacturers to scale up as they see fit and potential new manufacturers to go untapped and underfunded. The organizations that represent millions of nurses, doctors, hospitals and clinics are pleading for more federal intervention, while the administration maintains that the government has already done enough and that the PPE industry has stepped up on its own.
But in war time, major crises, the right, especially this president, just doesn't understand that the free market isn't as reliable to do the right thing as they and he think it is.
The job of the president, free market or not, is to protect Americans, and that includes protect Americans from pandemic diseases.
America has 4% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's covid cases.
According to data provided by Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, there were 2,910,023 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. out of 11,516,782 confirmed cases around the world
as of July 6.
This OP is but one of the reasons why Trump has failed, utterly, and why a good sizeable portion of the 200,000 people who have died, surely would be still alive, if he were a competent human being, one who had empathy for his fellow man, one who cared for people and not just the stock market, his crowd size, and his hair protecting adequately his bald spot.
BALTIMORE — The patient exhaled. She lifted her tongue for a thermometer. She raised her finger for a blood sugar test, and that’s when she started coughing. One cough can send 3,000 droplets into the air, one droplet can contain millions of coronavirus particles, and now some of those particles were heading for the face of emergency department nurse Kelly Williams. The nurse inhaled. Strapped over her mouth and nose was an N95 respirator, the disposable filtering mask that has become the world’s most reliable and coveted defense against the virus. N95s were designed to be thrown away after every patient. By this July afternoon, Williams had been wearing the same one for more than two months. To get to her, the N95 had traveled from a British factory to a Baltimore warehouse, in a supply chain as tangled and layered as the web of microscopic fibers inside the mask’s filter.
Through the powers of the Defense Production Act, President Trump ordered General Motors to make ventilators. Other companies followed, many supported by the government, until the terrifying problem of not enough ventilators wasn’t a problem at all. But for N95s and other respirators, Trump has used this authority far less, allowing major manufacturers to scale up as they see fit and potential new manufacturers to go untapped and underfunded. The organizations that represent millions of nurses, doctors, hospitals and clinics are pleading for more federal intervention, while the administration maintains that the government has already done enough and that the PPE industry has stepped up on its own.
