04-06-2020, 10:42 PM
** 06-Apr-2020 World View: The war over face masks
There's a growing global war over face masks, gowns, and ventilators.
This morning on MS-NBC we saw one battle in that war.
A Democratic politician on MS-NBC this morning was complaining that
states had to compete with one another to get vitally needed face
masks. The politician was Corey Johnson, Democrat, NYC council
speaker.
Johnson gave an example where someone over the weekend had to drive a
few hours to race to a gas station to meet with someone to give him a
check before someone else did, in order to get an order of face masks.
He whined that having to do that is ridiculous, incompetent and
ineffecient.
So he wants the federal government to take responsibility for
allocating such things as face masks. After he discussed this
recommendation, he went on to discuss how the government bailout
programs are racially discriminatory.
As usual, I have to marvel at the stupidity of these politicians. You
see stupidity on a daily basis, every time AOC opens her month, but
you can see that Johnson doesn't even the vaguest clue about
economics.
So let's take an example. Suppose there are one million face masks
available, and three million face masks are needed. Then, one way or
another, two million people won't get face masks. It doesn't matter
how the masks are allocated.
Typically, politicians are unable to understand simple math at the
second grade, and Johnson seems to be in that category. These numbers
are too difficult for politicians to understand.
So what is Johnson's solution to the problem? He wants Trump to
appoint a federal government bureaucrat to be "Face mask and Gown
Czar," who will decide who gets the one million face masks.
So this Czar would be appointed by Trump, so would probably be a
Republican, so Johnson would be whining every day that he's favoring
Republican districts, and that he's discriminating against blacks,
women, transgenders, Muslims, the whole works. The result would be a
bureaucratic disaster, and by the time it was done, probably only half
of the one million available face masks would be distributed.
We see this all the time -- politicians on the left and right who are
way too stupid to do much of anything except spend money, and can't
even do second grade arithmetic. The only good thing about this
situation is that Johnson's proposal has little chance of
implementation. At least I hope so.
However, this is only one battle in an increasing vitriolic global
war. Wait till it starts burning through Africa, the Mideast, and
various refugee camps. A lot of people are are going to be angry, as
they watch their friends and family drop dead from the virus.
There's a growing global war over face masks, gowns, and ventilators.
This morning on MS-NBC we saw one battle in that war.
A Democratic politician on MS-NBC this morning was complaining that
states had to compete with one another to get vitally needed face
masks. The politician was Corey Johnson, Democrat, NYC council
speaker.
Johnson gave an example where someone over the weekend had to drive a
few hours to race to a gas station to meet with someone to give him a
check before someone else did, in order to get an order of face masks.
He whined that having to do that is ridiculous, incompetent and
ineffecient.
So he wants the federal government to take responsibility for
allocating such things as face masks. After he discussed this
recommendation, he went on to discuss how the government bailout
programs are racially discriminatory.
As usual, I have to marvel at the stupidity of these politicians. You
see stupidity on a daily basis, every time AOC opens her month, but
you can see that Johnson doesn't even the vaguest clue about
economics.
So let's take an example. Suppose there are one million face masks
available, and three million face masks are needed. Then, one way or
another, two million people won't get face masks. It doesn't matter
how the masks are allocated.
Typically, politicians are unable to understand simple math at the
second grade, and Johnson seems to be in that category. These numbers
are too difficult for politicians to understand.
So what is Johnson's solution to the problem? He wants Trump to
appoint a federal government bureaucrat to be "Face mask and Gown
Czar," who will decide who gets the one million face masks.
So this Czar would be appointed by Trump, so would probably be a
Republican, so Johnson would be whining every day that he's favoring
Republican districts, and that he's discriminating against blacks,
women, transgenders, Muslims, the whole works. The result would be a
bureaucratic disaster, and by the time it was done, probably only half
of the one million available face masks would be distributed.
We see this all the time -- politicians on the left and right who are
way too stupid to do much of anything except spend money, and can't
even do second grade arithmetic. The only good thing about this
situation is that Johnson's proposal has little chance of
implementation. At least I hope so.
However, this is only one battle in an increasing vitriolic global
war. Wait till it starts burning through Africa, the Mideast, and
various refugee camps. A lot of people are are going to be angry, as
they watch their friends and family drop dead from the virus.
