1/ This is fun. Last week @washingtonpost ran a big story on the $3 billion the US wasted, I mean invested, in 95,000 never-been-used ventilators (what’s $3,000,000,000 between friends?). Look at that headline, though: “The U.S. forced major manufacturers to build ventilators...”
2/ Forced! FORCED, I tell ya. Now why on earth would the feds have felt forced to use wartime laws to force General Motors to make ventilators? Oh, I dunno, maybe because @Washingtonpost @nytimes were screaming at the top of their non-ventilated lungs about them...
3/ And how WE WERE ALL GOING TO DIE WITHOUT THEM...
4/ But now - “unexpectedly, the vast majority of ventilators are going unused” and sitting in a stockpile. UNEXPECTEDLY, I SAY. Who could have expected it? It was not at all obvious to anyone paying attention by early April.
5/ Expect many, many more of these Eternal Sunshine investigations from @nytimes @washingtonpost in the months to come. LOCKDOWNS ARE USELESS? Why were we not told? SOMEONE IS TO BLAME AND THAT SOMEONE IS DEFINITELY NOT US
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