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SettingSufficient788 t1_j9g11aq wrote

It’s almost as if the city didn’t know what equipment would be needed to fight a disease no one had any experience with…

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hatts t1_j9g4npt wrote

100%

i have no doubt that there are a LOT of rackets going on between vendors and govt. procurement, but you gotta spend—probably inefficiently!—to rapidly respond to a crisis

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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_j9g5o6k wrote

Agreed. My only gripe is this is going to be resold to hospital systems at a profit.

I’d much rather see hospitals pooling resources and selling to each other at cost.

This just lets a middleman collect profit by inserting themselves into the equation. And protects manufacturers from seeing a drop in demand.

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Jerund t1_j9g8pv9 wrote

Then the hospitals themselves need to hire people to facilitate the logistics for it. City has not control over Private hospitals to make them even trade with each other for resources. City hospitals is even more of a joke. Look at the pay difference between city hospitals and private hospitals.

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lantonas t1_j9iq08n wrote

> Agreed. My only gripe is this is going to be resold to hospital systems at a profit.

Nobody wants, or needs, this shit

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Willygolightly t1_j9g3qy9 wrote

That's kind of my take on this.... I would rather this be the outcome than a fulfilled need for 3,000 bridge ventilators in a city where 8M live. Just because you don't use your insurance, doesn't mean it's a bad investment.

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Amphiscian t1_j9g5c6x wrote

Also it's not like just an NYC problem. You can find similar stories from many cities and countries. It sucks, but it's not like we're the only place that got things wrong in the end in some way.

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ripstep1 t1_j9jagbh wrote

I mean sure. Government is incompetent in general. They don’t know anything about medicine period. They should have gone to hospitals and doctors to have them handle the funds.

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