WH canceled early plan to have Postal Service deliver pack of 5 reusable masks to every household

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Hamza Shaban @hshaban
Earlier this year, the White House canceled a proposed plan to have the Postal Service deliver a pack of 5 reusable masks to every household in the US, starting with hard hit areas.

But an administration official said they didn’t want people to “panic”

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[soothsayer]

1. I hate them

[madaboutharry]

2. This is a crime.

This has nothing to do with "panic." This is insanity. The initial hard hit area was New York. They want people to die.

[Zoonart]

6. Yes... they want black and brown people to die

so they won't be a "drag" on public services.... they want old people to die so they won't suck down health care money and bankrupt social security.

These are al the lies that the Republican Party has been feeding the populace for half a century.
The GOP have nurtured a generation of selfish, racist, bullying, punks, in 40% of this population and Donald Trump is their GOD.

Now they want us hurry up and die "Boomer", so they can reap what they have sown.

[AZ8theist]

15. I don't think so.

I think they wanted black and brown people to die so THEY COULDN'T VOTE.
Knowing full well that people of color lean democratic, this was part of the TRAITOR'S reelection strategy. It's simply a crime against humanity.

[FakeNoose]

24. Exactly right

They assumed that the city-people (in other words minorities) don't vote for them, so why should they care? They are monsters.

[Doodley]

3. And yet, 300,000,000 CDC tax dollars can be used as "PR" to help re-elect Trump. Saving Trump is

more important than saving American lives.

[NewJeffCT]

17. what? CDC dollars for Trump PR?

I missed that one

[marble falls]

4. Didn't want to panic them. The idea of a second Trump term panics me.

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[iluvtennis]

28. Ditto. nt

[Tanuki]

5. Kicking for exposure and to honor the memory of the thousands of people who have died

needlessly due to the criminal negligence of RacistScum45 and his toadies.

[Botany]

7. Kushner and the White House stopped the masks because the disease was then hitting blue states

In April, HHS planned to send a pack of five reusable masks to every residential US address. They even got USPS to draft a news release. Then the White House canceled the plan, fearing that it would cause a panic. It wasn't fear of a panic it was because
@ that time the C-19 was hitting blue states and minorities.

[patphil]

21. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we still have mask shortages in April?

And yet they planned to send 5 reusable masks to every residential address.
That would be about a billion masks...maybe more.
So, was there really a shortage, or just a managed shortage?

[bigtree]

25. there was a shortage of hospital grade masks

...not convinced reusable cloth ones couldn't be mobilized to households.

Trump still hasn't fully advantaged the Defense Production Act which would have facilitated the production of masks.

[KS Toronado]

23. My thoughts as well, trumpf was saying "I hope a lot of Democrat voters die so I get 4 more"

[Tanuki]

8. I hope they name the perpetrator. Saying "the White House cancelled..." does not go far enough.

Was it Trump himself? Jared? An actual person with a name made this decision and caused the death of thousands of Americans. They do not deserve the fig leaf of "the White House" to hide their guilt and shame.

[bigtree]

10. we'll find out, but we all know who ordered it

“I see President Trump’s fingerprints all over,” said Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight. “It’s clear from the president’s public comments, and the actions of his administration, he has a major agenda for the post office — and we see a lot of it in black and white here.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/

[MaryMagdaline]

9. Instead they told us to pack the churches

[DarthDem]

11. Oh? Perhaps thinking ahead . . .

. . . to demonizing and interfering with the USPS to stop people from voting? Probably harder to do that if the Postal Service had efficiently mailed everyone a supply of masks. Of course, the pandemic might not be so bad now if this plan had been carried out, either. Or if we'd done basically anything like countries with real federal/national governments.

I want to know, like others above, who stopped this. This is passing negligence and fast approaching criminality.

[Locrian]

31. I think

Number 1 really was to not panic. The market. They didn't give a damn about people.
They also HATE gov and didn't want to show it could actually help. Leave it to the "private sector" and hey lets make money!
Post office too might have been why show how important it is


They killed people. Simple as that. Had they sent them out there would have been less deaths, plus the trump morons *may* have been more willing to wear them having come from their hero. trump is too much of a moron though to have used this to his advantage

[0rganism]

12. they wanted us all sick, scared, and demoralized

and that's pretty much what they got

[lpbk2713]

13. Trump didn't want the Postal Service to make that much money,

Clearly it would have been a bonanza.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Ugh!

Although who knows what people would've received with Trump being involved.

[dalton99a]

16. While Singapore was handing out free masks to its residents

Razer is using vending machines to give out millions of free face masks in Singapore

[bigtree]

36. what could have been

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[RockRaven]

18. Purposely killing Americans. That's what this is. nt

[GoCubsGo]

19. These motherfuckers need to be broght to The Hague to be tried for crimes against humanity.

Eddie Slovik got the firing squad for less than this.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

42. Agree 100%.

Unfortunately, the Trump Crime Family, & their enablers, will get away with murder.

[dlk]

20. Reckless endangerment...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. smdh....he's a FUCKING SADISTIC SOCIOPATH!!!!!

GOD DAMN IT

[Harker]

26. Two things he has been trying to kill off (aside from us)

are those freedom inhibiting masks and the USPS.

Doomed program.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. Special place in hell for these fuckers. Criminal and traitors

[BlueWavePsych]

29. Don't panic???

Btw, more toons here ... https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214085886

[PatSeg]

30. Jeez, every day a new outrage

These people are unbelievable.

[Lonestarblue]

32. The only panic Trump and his fellow criminals were worried about was a stock market panic.

They don’t care at all how many people die, especially if they’re black and brown people.

[MontanaMama]

33. There's apparently a shortage of nitrile gloves at the moment.

The last time I ordered nitrile gloves for our business, in March, they were around $50 per case...just over $4 per box of 100. I usually order 2 cases at a time and those last our staff about 6 months. I went to order them this week and our supplier would only sell me one case and it was $165...almost $14 per box! I said “no thanks“ and went to shop around online and found that I couldn’t find them any cheaper anywhere else. I ended up calling my supplier and asking for that case of gloves after all.

I remember when the federal government was seizing PPE from states. I might be crazy but I wonder if the grifters who were doing that didn’t also steal gloves with the intent to sell them at 3 times the cost? Nothing would surprise me. I do know there are no American companies that manufacture nitrile gloves so it could be that. Who knows. Regardless, yesterday, we adopted a policy that nobody peels their gloves to take a phone call...they’re too expensive to risk tearing them taking them on and off.

[cayugafalls]

34. Trump admin, conspiracy to commit murder.

Murder One charges for Trump.

Simple. We must win.

[Progressive dog]

35. How the hell does anyone still support those criminals

running our country? They are obviously incompetent and morally unfit to manage a small business, much less a nation--even if they cared to try.

[Javaman]

37. sending masks would have gone completely against the orange murderers hoax bullshit.

like I have been saying about the repukes (and the religious right) they are motivated by spite.

nothing more nothing less.

[bigtree]

38. right, he had decided at the time to tell the public something different

...than he had told Woodward.

Trump had said publicly that the coronavirus would ‘miraculously disappear’ by April. Was talking about business as usual by Easter.

So damning.

[Kali]

39. fuckers

[Eliot Rosewater]

40. Mass murderers, and we do now understand NOTHING is beyond what Barr will do to

interfere with the election, right?

[Cha]

41. WH ASSHOLES.. Lost your fucking chance

for bragging rights & we got our OWN MASKS & More Proof you're Out to KILL!