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"The Federal Government is not a shipping clerk". The biggest complaint in all of this is that the Federal government is not handling the allocation of these sc
by jeremyjh 7y ago
"The Federal Government is not a shipping clerk". The biggest complaint in all of this is that the Federal government is not handling the allocation of these scarce resources, instead forcing states to engage in bidding wars that only enrich suppliers and brokers.
- notyourday 7y agoThe system is setup to allow for individual players to continue to engage in the commercial transactions however they want as long as the prioritized requests have been satisfied. Requests are prioritized based on the "hotness" of the requests and a probability of the issuer of the request not being able to find a way to resolve it. If Mount Sinai (NYC, red zone) needs 20k masks because they are projected to run out in two days ( burn rate 10k/day) and Abington Health (PA, outside Philadelphia, yellow zone) has 20k masks that are heading to it ( its burn rate is 200/day ), the feds will absolutely take it and redirect to Mount Sinai. On the other hand if Mount Sinai is projected to run out in a week, feds won't touch it.