California once had mobile hospitals
and a ventilator stockpile.
But it dismantled them
Los Angeles Times,
by
Lance Williams
&
Will Evans &
Original Article
Posted By: poster,
3/27/2020 9:51:38 PM
They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours. Each hospital would be the size of a football field, with a surgery ward, intensive care unit and X-ray equipment. Medical response teams would also have access to a massive stockpile of emergency supplies: 50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators and kits to set up 21,000 additional patient beds wherever they were needed. In 2006, citing the threat of avian flu, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jed 3/27/2020 9:53:38 PM (No. 360396)
The important question is, are the illegals getting all they demand?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/27/2020 10:06:41 PM (No. 360403)
Let's start gearing up for the flu season 5 years from now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 3/27/2020 10:36:34 PM (No. 360413)
Dems, especially California Dems, destroy everything they touch, but I'll bet that med care for illegals was funded.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/27/2020 10:37:37 PM (No. 360414)
Article text seems to be in Morse code.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/27/2020 10:50:05 PM (No. 360421)
Mock him if you will, but this was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s project. 2006. Dismantled by Dem Jerry Brown in 2011.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/27/2020 10:50:42 PM (No. 360422)
No illegals were harmed in this process. Fmr Gov. Jerry Moonbeam said, ''Do you have a light?''
FTA: Through a spokesperson, Brown, the former governor, declined to be interviewed for this story. Officials in the state Department of Finance declined to comment. Officials with the state Public Health Department declined interviews and provided only brief written answers to some questions, declining to provide a full accounting of the stockpile.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 3/27/2020 11:07:04 PM (No. 360436)
Planning ahead? Must be a Republican.
Any transition from Republican to Democrat always sucks; this one was no exception.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 3/27/2020 11:12:18 PM (No. 360439)
FTA: "... the administration of a fiscally minded Democratic governor, Jerry Brown,..."
What the H! That's the most bad-faced lie I've ever read in the LA Times, and that is saying something! I was quite surprised to learn that Swartzenkennedy did put in place appropriate emergency response facilities and supplies. My only memory of him is bouncing across the stage with that stupid broom in his hand.
For the LA Times they do a good job of laying at the feet of the Democrats their responsibility for the ill-preparedness of our state to meet this emergency. The sad fact is this story will not get on the six o'clock news, nor reprinted in other rags across the state. Its been reported and is now officially "old news." It will go down the memory hole.
Six million a year to keep emergencies supplies up to date? Long-term planning for something "that ended up not happening"? Its just a waste of money when we have undocumented migrants yearning to be free and collect welfare, the homeless refuse of society needing an army of social workers to enable their lifestyle, and the world to save through solar panels in the desert roasting birds mid-air to windmills dicing birds in mid-air.
Ah, the Peoples Republic of California. Ripe for a Trumpian takeover.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JL80863 3/27/2020 11:19:52 PM (No. 360443)
My God, the LAT has been struck with a bout of Journalism. Not to worry, they will return to normal by tomorrow's edition. s/o
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jimincalif 3/27/2020 11:35:05 PM (No. 360448)
Moonbeam strikes from retirement.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 3/27/2020 11:49:25 PM (No. 360451)
All this data on a State-by-State basis must be compiled because some of us live rational lives and are frugal, and some States are well-run, don't tax their citizens into smithereens, and try to plan for emergencies... at least they have a sound foundation.
And then, we bear the brunt of the idiocy of Democrat governors (mostly Dems). You know what, not just the governors. All Dem government officials elected and appointed. I want the clueless citizens of this Country to understand what these magnanimous (with tax dollrs, our money), generous (with tax dollars our money), beneficent (with our tax dollars).
Republicans tend to easy forgiveness. The Dems may appear to pause in the pursuit of total control and power.
The Left in general, the Dems in particular, always bite the Republican/Conservative hand that feeds them.
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Cali govt. displayed their tyrannic hold over the peons, by ordering them to remain in their cells-homes- terrorizing them with doom and gloom, while no restriction were put on the countless homeless (where else would a fast spreading disease fester?) which have not suffered a viral outbreak.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/28/2020 6:03:03 AM (No. 360531)
Well NY's sainted Cuomo followed suit by handing out his stockpile and refused to spend money to buy more for the stockpile at a low price so he could free up money to freely hand over to "critical" wind mill and solar developers. I wonder how much of that free money from taxpayers comes back to state demonrat coffers plus into their pockets. I suspect a lot since he shut down that big investigation from 2 years ago when it got too close to him.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chance_232 3/28/2020 8:57:50 AM (No. 360630)
I'm only surprised that the LA Times ran this story. And I'm further surprised that it wasn't Trump's fault.
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