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Wow, those prices are staggering. Taxpayer money wasted on a knee-jerk reaction by an emotional governor. Glad he didn't get the 30k ventilators he wanted as
by s_y_n_t_a_x 6y ago
Wow, those prices are staggering.
Taxpayer money wasted on a knee-jerk reaction by an emotional governor.
Glad he didn't get the 30k ventilators he wanted as well.
edit: Many people told him he didn't need that many before the fact.
I think it's perfectly fine to be critical of a governor if we're critical of our president.
A leader should have some sort of vision into the future.
- nojito 6y agoHindsight is 20/20. It's easy to make criticisms like this after the fact... However, no one knew if the shelter in place order would even work.
- ilikehurdles 6y agoOne development that the medical community discovered later on was that putting patients on the ventilator increased their mortality rate, and they moved toward treating patients as long as possible without relying on a ventilator. See: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/safety-quality/some-doctors-moving-away-ventilators-virus-patients https://www.modernhealthcare.com/safety-quality/some-doctors... This information simply didn't exist and was highly hypothetical at the time ventilators were being requested.
- projektfu 6y agoWe have spent 1/10000 of the money spent on this crisis for field hospitals.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 6y agoDon't worry, I'm not thrilled how the rest of it was spent either. Doesn't mean I can't take issue with this. That 1/10000th of the budget could have went to nursing homes or other critical areas. No matter how much a trillion is, several hundred million dollars is still a lot of money...