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rthstewart) wrote2020-05-14 10:40 pm
rthstewart) wrote2020-05-14 10:40 pm
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This fucking administration
- A fact sheet obviously written by Kush and McKinsey on the strategic national stockpile -- "Our next generation SNS will be improved by increasing supplies of critically-needed items, integrating predictive analytics to determine needs, leveraging technology to provide real-time visibility of supply chains, and reducing dependency on foreign supplies." What the hell does that even mean? It's somebody's powerpoint from a supply chain presentation in 2019. And the SNS, gosh maybe because they were funnelling funds to bioterrorism defense and smallpox vaccine interests owned by Adminstration friends? or because Republicans declined funding requests? Or they didn't repair the stuff that was in the stockpile? Absolute fuckwits.
- The evening White House COVID-19 Update I have to plow through every single fucking night included this wonderful gem:
- Former Cleveland Clinic Employee and Chinese “Thousand Talents” Participant Arrested for Wire Fraud (Dr. Qing Wang, a former Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) employee, is charged with false claims and wire fraud related to more than $3.6 million in grant funding that Dr. Wang and his research group received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). DOJ press release here
Now I'm very curious. this is a COVID-19 update. Why is this item here? Maybe Dr. Wang and his CCF research group got a grant from NIH for COVID research in, say mid-March for $3.6 million, CCF got suspicious, fired Wang, reported him to NIH who brought in the FBI and DOJ and they managed, while everyone is working remotely and travel is banned, managed to pull together a criminal case in less than 60 days?
Or maybe this relates to conduct that dates back I dunno, months? years? And funny but the DOJ and FBI press releases contain NOTHING about when this occurred. Maybe it's COVID related? Sure.
Or maybe this relates to conduct that dates back I dunno, months? years? And funny but the DOJ and FBI press releases contain NOTHING about when this occurred. Maybe it's COVID related? Sure.
Or maybe it's just because Dr. Wang is Chinese? You think?
- And then there is this Executive Order,on Delegating Authority Under the DPA to the CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to Respond to the COVID-19 Outbreak
OK so maybe the US is helping other countries with loans through the IDFC? Maybe?Oh look. The Prez is delegating presidential authority to Adam Boehler, who is SURPRISE a Kush friend who helped fuck up the supply chain pandemic response. And so Kush's friend has just been given:- Accordingly, I am delegating authority under title III of the Act to make loans, make provision for purchases and commitments to purchase, and take additional actions to create, maintain, protect, expand, and restore the domestic industrial base capabilities, including supply chains within the United States and its territories (“domestic supply chains”), needed to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.
- So using the IDFC for domestic supply? Or? what exactly? Make low interest government loans to his friends in healthcare startups to come up with software companies already have? Analytics you already they use? You really think behemoths like Merck, Pfizer, J&J, 3M, Mckesson and AmerisourceBergen aren't amazing at predicting supply?
/rant over we're all fine here. I'm going to post this and go to bed and think about fic I actually put down 4 sentences to this evening...
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