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That is completely immaterial to the discussion
In defence of the OP, at risk of also getting downvoted :) I think what the OP is trying to say is that it is hard to imagine a career politician instituting such a program.
This is a good example of why labor unions are important and necessary. A single nurse can be ignored because of the massive power imbalance between an individual and the management collective of a large organization. Nurses banding together to create their own collective creates a level playing field for negotiations.
I can confirm the "used PPE" thing from personal experience. My partner (a nurse at a VA hospital) was given a Tupperware container with holes poked in the lid as "overnight storage" for her N95 mask and was asked to reuse it for up to a month at a time. As far as I know this is still ongoing. I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we shoul…
Was the Defense Production Act successful at ramping up production of PPE? It's been 8 months since I've seen a proper N95 mask on store shelves. Hearing that someone close was going through the same thing as your partner, bringing home used masks and having to hit the black market/eBay for respirators with cartridges so they wouldn't become lightheaded when transporting patients all day was shocking. I think what's…
This can easily be solved with a tiny bit of sense. The state of California has large stockpiles. Now would be the time to distribute some. EDIT: shows the state of Hacker News readership that this is downvoted when the article states this. Furthermore, here is a second source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/07/22/governor-newsom-announces-... hitting the downvoted button because it offends their sensibility without rea…
Citation please? I find this incredibly hard to believe.
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That is completely immaterial to the discussion
In defence of the OP, at risk of also getting downvoted :) I think what the OP is trying to say is that it is hard to imagine a career politician instituting such a program.
I can confirm the "used PPE" thing from personal experience. My partner (a nurse at a VA hospital) was given a Tupperware container with holes poked in the lid as "overnight storage" for her N95 mask and was asked to reuse it for up to a month at a time. As far as I know this is still ongoing. I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we shoul…
Does anyone have a link to more context about the strike? I found this on the union website— http://www.seiu121rn.org/2020/11/29/press-release-nurses-hea...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n95-mask-shortage-melt-blown-fi...
I can confirm the "used PPE" thing from personal experience. My partner (a nurse at a VA hospital) was given a Tupperware container with holes poked in the lid as "overnight storage" for her N95 mask and was asked to reuse it for up to a month at a time. As far as I know this is still ongoing. I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we shoul…
Edit: Similarly to your partner, we are given paper bags for our face shields and kidney bean shaped plastic bins to hold our N95. They installed coat hooks to hang our masks at the end of a shift.
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As an outsider this is basically exactly what I would expect to happen in US healthcare.
As an American, it has been incredibly demoralizing seeing one institution after another fail miserably. I didn’t have high expectations, but oh boy did we fall way short.
But still, horrible to see.
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That is completely immaterial to the discussion
Is it? Career politicians have political debts to be paid, which override what's best for their constituents.
Edit: changed 'is not' to 'are not'