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Post the press release(s) where Bright as BARDA Director called for acquisition of these German test kits.

Bright personally did not push for the German made kits. The WHO offered, and Trump, being a "businessman", and surrounded by his ilk, chose a private solution. Fuckin' wonder why.

Bright, in his testimony, made the calls to action very clear, and was systematically ignored. We'll no doubt see many more calls like this ignored when more instances of the rank incompetence come to light.

Bright was pushing for an existing contract to manufacture over a million n95 masks in January, all in America, and jack shit was done. There's a clear pattern here, and it lies at the heart of actions like putting financial managers on pandemic teams with actual experts, and having them promote the bogus admin message, often contrary to what the experts in the WH are saying.
 
Bright personally did not push for the German made kits. The WHO offered, and Trump, being a "businessman", and surrounded by his ilk, chose a private solution. Fuckin' wonder why.

Bright, in his testimony, made the calls to action very clear, and was systematically ignored. We'll no doubt see many more calls like this ignored when more instances of the rank incompetence come to light.

Bright was pushing for an existing contract to manufacture over a million n95 masks in January, all in America, and jack shit was done. There's a clear pattern here, and it lies at the heart of actions like putting financial managers on pandemic teams with actual experts, and having them promote the bogus admin message, often contrary to what the experts in the WH are saying.

If it's so obvious that these German kits ought to be used, and Bright is a diamond in the rough of the federal government as he purports himself to be, why didn't he call for the acquisition of these test kits? Why did his BARDA in a March press release say there are no approved diagnostics?

It seems to me Bright wants to blame everyone for an imperfect response to deflect from his own failures.



In 2017 a company was paid $3.3 million to come up with a machine to mass produce masks fast during a pandemic. It didn't get built because according to BARDA (which had a 1.5 billion $ budget) there wasn't enough money for the project. Bright claims the decision to scrap the project didn't come to him. Sounds like Bright was the antithesis of bureaucratic competence.
 
If it's so obvious that these German kits ought to be used, and Bright is a diamond in the rough of the federal government as he purports himself to be, why didn't he call for the acquisition of these test kits? Why did his BARDA in a March press release say there are no approved diagnostics?

It seems to me Bright wants to blame everyone for an imperfect response to deflect from his own failures.



In 2017 a company was paid $3.3 million to come up with a machine to mass produce masks. It not got build because according to BARDA (which had a billion $) there wasn't enough money for the project. Bright claims the decision to scrap the project didn't come to him. Sounds like Bright was the antithesis of bureaucratic competence.


Dr. Bright, especially in an admin like this, is not in charge of what projects get funding. It's laughable to me, that in the era of Trump, you're gonna see cost cutting and put it on the pandemic expert, not on people like Trump or Azar. Just fuckin' lol!

The fact remains, he and other pushed early for the manufacturing of masks, and for the admin to move in preparing. These calls were ignored, including the manufacturing of masks, and the taking of WHO test kits.

You're behaving as if it's all on guys like Bright, not on Trump, who is the leader of the free world, and the guy who assured everyone that his incompetence would be done away with by his expert ability at delegation and management.

Why continue to support such abject failures, blaming anyone but the guy actually in charge?
 
Dr. Bright, especially in an admin like this, is not in charge of what projects get funding. It's laughable to me, that in the era of Trump, you're gonna see cost cutting and put it on the pandemic expert, not on people like Trump or Azar. Just fuckin' lol!

The fact remains, he and other pushed early for the manufacturing of masks, and for the admin to move in preparing. These calls were ignored, including the manufacturing of masks, and the taking of WHO test kits.

You're behaving as if it's all on guys like Bright, not on Trump, who is the leader of the free world, and the guy who assured everyone that his incompetence would be done away with by his expert ability at delegation and management.

Why continue to support such abject failures, blaming anyone but the guy actually in charge?

Here are the facts:

- Despite BARDA having a 1.5 $ billion budget, under Bright's leadership a project to develop a machine that would mass produce masks during a pandemic was shitcanned because of a lack of funding.
- As recently as March, Bright's BARDA issued a press release saying "There are currently no approved diagnostics [sabretruth: so no German test kits], vaccines or treatments [sabetruth: so no remdesivir] for COVID-19 infections."
- Also in March, Bright requested an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine.
- In February and March Fauci said there's no need for Americans to wear masks.
 
@hillelslovak87
Prior to the Chinese virus, how much time did the Democrat presidential candidates talk about restocking the SNS (for which Obama requested a net reduction of $45 million)? Granted, these aren't all the candidates, but not one mentiones stockpiling masks as a top priority:
 
Here are the facts:

- Despite BARDA having a 1.5 $ billion budget, under Bright's leadership a project to develop a machine that would mass produce masks during a pandemic was shitcanned because of a lack of funding.
- As recently as March, Bright's BARDA issued a press release saying "There are currently no approved diagnostics [sabretruth: so no German test kits], vaccines or treatments [sabetruth: so no remdesivir] for COVID-19 infections."
- Also in March, Bright requested an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine.
- In February and March Fauci said there's no need for Americans to wear masks.


And did BARDA control it's own funding, or did it receive it from the HHS budget, under director Alex Azar?
 
And did BARDA control it's own funding, or did it receive it from the HHS budget, under director Alex Azar?

What higher priorities than a rapid-fire mass producing mask maker was the remaining $1,496,700,000 spent on?
 
What higher priorities than a rapid-fire mass producing mask maker was the remaining $1,496,700,000 spent on?

Maybe you should ask Trump's hack appointee running the agency BARDA is a part of, Alex Azar. You know, the guy fucking it up on that front, predictably, since he's nothing but a Bush-era lobbyist cumbag? You realize Bright can't just tell a ready and capable n95 manufacturer to start up the assembly line, right?

I don't give a shit about what Democratic candidates have to say about a situation that they, if in the same position, would have had 3 years to prepare for. You get that? Trump's in office, and the little deflection game can't be played very convincingly on this. Moaning about a failure by Obama does absofuckinlutely nothing to remediate Trump's.

Lastly, I didn't misspell scumbag................
 
Obama never faced a problem like the Chinese virus. It's impossible to know how "competent" his response would've been under these circumstances. But I bet he wouldn't have placed travel restrictions on January 31.

Well, he was faced with the recession in 2009 and handled it extremely well, the US got out of it better than the majority of the countries.
 
Maybe you should ask Trump's hack appointee running the agency BARDA is a part of, Alex Azar. You know, the guy fucking it up on that front, predictably, since he's nothing but a Bush-era lobbyist cumbag? You realize Bright can't just tell a ready and capable n95 manufacturer to start up the assembly line, right?

I don't give a shit about what Democratic candidates have to say about a situation that they, if in the same position, would have had 3 years to prepare for. You get that? Trump's in office, and the little deflection game can't be played very convincingly on this. Moaning about a failure by Obama does absofuckinlutely nothing to remediate Trump's.

Lastly, I didn't misspell scumbag................

If Democrats running for President virtually never campaigned on restocking the SNS, and Obama (who is still held in extremely high regard by his party, unlike Bush with Republicans) what makes you think Democrats would have used those three years to restock the SNS? I mean, while Obama requested a $45 million reduction for the SNS he requested a $280 million increase for AIDS prevention and research in his CDC budgets. Stocking the SNS was low on Obama's priorities for the CDC. When did it become a high priority for other Democrats? It's baseless to claim that in the three years a Democrat President could have prepared she would have prepared.

What you call deflecting, I call putting in context. I'm challenging the notion that "Lefties wanted a competent leader that wouldn't shelve key medical professionals and throw away key aspects of our pandemic readiness for years before the virus hit, then spending months sitting on their asses". Given that Obama requested a net reduction of $45 million for the SNS, and given that prior to the virus Democrats said virtually nothing about a priority to fill the SNS, I find your claim that a Democrat wouldn't throw away "key aspects" of our preparadness dubious at best. Regarding those "key medical professionals", Trump eliminated some posts and shuffled some people around, but the idea that the people whose jobs were eliminated would have saved a significant number of lives seems very ad hoc to me. Unless some of these people whose jobs were eliminated were moles embedded in Wuhan hospitals communicating back to DC, how would their employment have saved American lives?

In 2017 Bright's BARDA had the money to pay for a machine that would rapidly mass produce masks during a pandemic. If the $3.3 million wasn't enough to cover the development costs, are you telling me there was nothing else in BARDA's $1.5 billion budget less important which money could've been taken from to continue funding for the machine?
 
Well, he was faced with the recession in 2009 and handled it extremely well, the US got out of it better than the majority of the countries.

The recession wasn't like the Chinese virus.
 
The recession wasn't like the Chinese virus.

Root causes for recessions rarely are the same that's why you need leaders that can act swift and decisive, so in that sense Obama did face a real and extremely problematic issue and handled it extremely well. Some southern european countries were still feeling the effects of the GFC some 10 years later before Corona took over.
 
Root causes for recessions rarely are the same that's why you need leaders that can act swift and decisive, so in that sense Obama did face a real and extremely problematic issue and handled it extremely well. Some southern european countries were still feeling the effects of the GFC some 10 years later before Corona took over.

The issues are completely different.
 
If Democrats running for President virtually never campaigned on restocking the SNS, and Obama (who is still held in extremely high regard by his party, unlike Bush with Republicans) what makes you think Democrats would have used those three years to restock the SNS? I mean, while Obama requested a $45 million reduction for the SNS he requested a $280 million increase for AIDS prevention and research in his CDC budgets. Stocking the SNS was low on Obama's priorities for the CDC. When did it become a high priority for other Democrats? It's baseless to claim that in the three years a Democrat President could have prepared she would have prepared.

What you call deflecting, I call putting in context. I'm challenging the notion that "Lefties wanted a competent leader that wouldn't shelve key medical professionals and throw away key aspects of our pandemic readiness for years before the virus hit, then spending months sitting on their asses". Given that Obama requested a net reduction of $45 million for the SNS, and given that prior to the virus Democrats said virtually nothing about a priority to fill the SNS, I find your claim that a Democrat wouldn't throw away "key aspects" of our preparadness dubious at best. Regarding those "key medical professionals", Trump eliminated some posts and shuffled some people around, but the idea that the people whose jobs were eliminated would have saved a significant number of lives seems very ad hoc to me. Unless some of these people whose jobs were eliminated were moles embedded in Wuhan hospitals communicating back to DC, how would their employment have saved American lives?

In 2017 Bright's BARDA had the money to pay for a machine that would rapidly mass produce masks during a pandemic. If the $3.3 million wasn't enough to cover the development costs, are you telling me there was nothing else in BARDA's $1.5 billion budget less important which money could've been taken from to continue funding for the machine?

The Democratic candidates weren't the President, and didn't have, among other things, the national stockpile to assess and supply. Trump and his admin, nobody else, failed at that as the previous admin had. He didn't just shift some posts around. What an absurd claim. He wholesale dismantled every facet of our pandemic responsiveness that came from Obama, and did it for the easiest to spot reasons. You people, you still don't seem to see the philosophy of this admin pertaining to the severe limitation of government.

However, the previous admin, despite that failure, had a robust plan in place to respond to pandemics, even leaving the Trump admin existing contracts for mass production of medical supplies.

This is what people do in defense of Trump: Seize upon one decent action amongst a host of piss poor ones, then talk only of it. Like with the travel ban, it's now the stockpile. That's the oooooone thing you guys can think of, even though it exposes yet another Trump failing.

Again with BARDA. Again with the explanation that their funding is ran by HHS. They don't control it, and when Bright pushed for the implementation of the existing contract to produce masks, he was ignored again and again, as he testified under oath.

He had 3 years, mufucka. It's on him, the guy who said he'd change everything for the better.
 
"Every billionaire is a policy failure." - Dan Riffle
 
Obama never faced a problem like the Chinese virus. It's impossible to know how "competent" his response would've been under these circumstances. But I bet he wouldn't have placed travel restrictions on January 31.

Domestically that's true, but internationally, he did, in Syria. A 3rd world dictator walked all over him along with the Russians. You see the results still playing out until this day. The Chinese also walked all over him especially in the South China Sea.
 
The Democratic candidates weren't the President, and didn't have, among other things, the national stockpile to assess and supply. Trump and his admin, nobody else, failed at that as the previous admin had. He didn't just shift some posts around. What an absurd claim. He wholesale dismantled every facet of our pandemic responsiveness that came from Obama, and did it for the easiest to spot reasons. You people, you still don't seem to see the philosophy of this admin pertaining to the severe limitation of government.

However, the previous admin, despite that failure, had a robust plan in place to respond to pandemics, even leaving the Trump admin existing contracts for mass production of medical supplies.

This is what people do in defense of Trump: Seize upon one decent action amongst a host of piss poor ones, then talk only of it. Like with the travel ban, it's now the stockpile. That's the oooooone thing you guys can think of, even though it exposes yet another Trump failing.

Again with BARDA. Again with the explanation that their funding is ran by HHS. They don't control it, and when Bright pushed for the implementation of the existing contract to produce masks, he was ignored again and again, as he testified under oath.

He had 3 years, mufucka. It's on him, the guy who said he'd change everything for the better.

What are some of these meaningful facets of our pandemic responsiveness that Trump eliminated? Were they moles embedded in Wuhan hospitals with access to medical records? If not, how would their continued employment have made a significant impact on how the Chinese virus has affected Americans?

Bright was not under oath during his May 14 Congressional testimony. Having a machine to mass produce masks during a pandemic obviously wasn't a concern for Bright, otherwise he would have made it his business to ensure the project received the necessary funds to be completed.

If you think the travel restrictions (which a Dem probably wouldn't have done as early as January) and Obama requesting a net reduction of $45 million for the SNS (while making CDC budget requests that cumulatively equaled a $280 million increase for AIDS research and prevention) are small potatoes, what are the 'big potatoes' Democrats would've done differently?
 
What are some of these meaningful facets of our pandemic responsiveness that Trump eliminated? Were they moles embedded in Wuhan hospitals with access to medical records? If not, how would their continued employment have made a significant impact on how the Chinese virus has affected Americans?

Bright was not under oath during his May 14 Congressional testimony. Having a machine to mass produce masks during a pandemic obviously wasn't a concern for Bright, otherwise he would have made it his business to ensure the project received the necessary funds to be completed.

If you think the travel restrictions (which a Dem probably wouldn't have done as early as January) and Obama requesting a net reduction of $45 million for the SNS (while making CDC budget requests that cumulatively equaled a $280 million increase for AIDS research and prevention) are small potatoes, what are the 'big potatoes' Democrats would've done differently?

It has been laid out, over and over again, specific facets of the pandemic response Trump has ignored or eliminated, for years. The removal of CDC teams in China, the removal of numerous key offices, both in the WH and in executive administrations, budget cuts and hiring freezes at the CDC and other agencies starting in 2017 (Trump claimed he could simply hire doctors and experts back when we need them, thus showing he hasn't even a basic grasp of disaster preparedness generally), throwing away the detailed playbook his admin inherited from the Obama admin (including many of the taskforces and teams in the WH Trump later disbanded or "reorganized" under the control of John Bolton), and much of the stuff Dr. Bright spoke of.

On Dr. Bright, you have failed, at every point, to show even a basic grasp about him, his position, or his testimony. You are wrong, as he testified under oath to a House committee. You are wrong, as he is not in charge of BARDA's funding, since it is part of the HHS, which is controlled by Alex Azar. Do you understand these things now?

Dr. Bright, seeing a disaster approaching, pushes for a contract the Obama admin secured at the tail end of his presidency, seeing as the head of the company contracted made it clear they were rearing and ready to go. He pushes for the fulfillment of this agreement to the top of the HHS. Nothing. He goes to the WH, and department after department. Jack shit. They played the telephone game with him over 1.5 million n95 masks in January 2020.

You see any problems there?
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...about-lack-of-n95-masks-were-ignored/2302684/

Here's the guy detailing this under oath in pretty good detail, as to what happened.
 
It has been laid out, over and over again, specific facets of the pandemic response Trump has ignored or eliminated, for years. The removal of CDC teams in China, the removal of numerous key offices, both in the WH and in executive administrations, budget cuts and hiring freezes at the CDC and other agencies starting in 2017 (Trump claimed he could simply hire doctors and experts back when we need them, thus showing he hasn't even a basic grasp of disaster preparedness generally), throwing away the detailed playbook his admin inherited from the Obama admin (including many of the taskforces and teams in the WH Trump later disbanded or "reorganized" under the control of John Bolton), and much of the stuff Dr. Bright spoke of.

On Dr. Bright, you have failed, at every point, to show even a basic grasp about him, his position, or his testimony. You are wrong, as he testified under oath to a House committee. You are wrong, as he is not in charge of BARDA's funding, since it is part of the HHS, which is controlled by Alex Azar. Do you understand these things now?

Dr. Bright, seeing a disaster approaching, pushes for a contract the Obama admin secured at the tail end of his presidency, seeing as the head of the company contracted made it clear they were rearing and ready to go. He pushes for the fulfillment of this agreement to the top of the HHS. Nothing. He goes to the WH, and department after department. Jack shit. They played the telephone game with him over 1.5 million n95 masks in January 2020.

You see any problems there?
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...about-lack-of-n95-masks-were-ignored/2302684/

Here's the guy detailing this under oath in pretty good detail, as to what happened.

Tell me about these CDC teams in China. What was the nature of their work? Did members of these teams have access to medical records of Wuhan patients?

I hate to use a cliche, but it sounds like you think the government throwing money at something equates to solving or preventing problems. If you're going to claim that the elimination of government jobs led to Americans being affected far worse than we otherwise would have, explain exactly how these people's job duties, if performed, would have significantly reduced the harm of the virus to Americans.

So are you claiming the BARDA Director does not have say in how BARDA money is spent? I find that hard to believe. I can't find the 2016 BARDA Director job posting, but in one from 2007, budgeting decisions are clearly within the position's scope of duties:

Provide overall organizational management including determining overall organizational structure, manpower requirements and activities; assuring effective use of available resources; budgeting; research efforts; and program evaluation.
B) Experience which demonstrates expertise and successful management of an organization which has included: (1) Skill in the formulation, presentation, and execution of a budget; (2) Conducting cost- effectiveness studies and developing long-range planning models; (3) Development of comprehensive action plans for the resolution of complex organizational and operational problems.
Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. (Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management)
http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/science/flu-vaccine/barda-director-2007.pdf

Between 2007 and the time Bright served as BARDA Director, were budgeting and resource management no longer duties of and core qualifications required for the position? If so, post your source delineating the novel scope of responsibilities for BARDA Director from the time Bright applied until the end of his term.

Regarding your claim that Bright testified under oath, you're simply wrong:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...-put-whistleblower-dr-rick-bright-under-oath/
 
Tell me about these CDC teams in China. What was the nature of their work? Did members of these teams have access to medical records of Wuhan patients?

I hate to use a cliche, but it sounds like you think the government throwing money at something equates to solving or preventing problems. If you're going to claim that the elimination of government jobs led to Americans being affected far worse than we otherwise would have, explain exactly how these people's job duties, if performed, would have significantly reduced the harm of the virus to Americans.

So are you claiming the BARDA Director does not have say in how BARDA money is spent? I find that hard to believe. I can't find the 2016 BARDA Director job posting, but in one from 2007, budgeting decisions are clearly within the position's scope of duties:




http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/science/flu-vaccine/barda-director-2007.pdf

Between 2007 and the time Bright served as BARDA Director, were budgeting and resource management no longer duties of and core qualifications required for the position? If so, post your source delineating the novel scope of responsibilities for BARDA Director from the time Bright applied until the end of his term.

Regarding your claim that Bright testified under oath, you're simply wrong:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...-put-whistleblower-dr-rick-bright-under-oath/

BARDA's funding was handled by either the sec or assistant sec of preparedness. Kadlec, the ousted asst sec was the person in charge of procurment and funding for such. That's why Bright went to him first, and was ignored.

And on the CDC teams in China:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...a-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5

This shit keeps being brought for you people, and whether or not you read it, it's seemingly never remembered.
 
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