Social Native Community Health Center Asked for COVID-19 Test Kits and PPE; Receives Bodybags Instead

[nostradumbass]

MAGA

Impressive if Trump has been able to turn Chicago into maga country, and now the king county health department in Seattle. Huge if true.

 

[Gandhi]

Well, if they don't need those body bags after 3 weeks, I guess they didn't need those medical supplies urgently after all.

I always come to these threads to see @Limbo Pete say “Why did I come into this thread?”

This one is ok so far lol

I guess that’s not too bad by WR standards

 

[Bald1]

This one is ok so far lol

Give it time.

This cock up is so on the nose as to make it planned. Plausible deniability based on an outlandish mistake type of a deal.

 

[Renard]

The real story:
> Government announced $4.8 billion to tribal governments, money was to be distributed in April
> Tribal governments got into a spat because some money went to an Alaskan corporation and there's an Alaskan native working as assistant secretary in Indian affairs
> Money got held up because of the legal battle

Lmao. Up in Canada the tribes fight all the time for dumb shit as well, I ain't surprised.

Most people won't read the article, only the headline. Just watch them. Orange man bad, muh symbolism body bags

 

[jrams]

im not going to try and break down the article and read it multiple times to get to the bottom of it but it seems theres a bit more involved including the legal infighting amongst tribes on aid and how it was to be distributed as well as the fact that the body bags is considered by all sides and accidental shipment.

You're a sucker if you read the story before blindly commenting on the title + byline. Just be lazy like @tonni, call it racist, and move on.

 

[morgado388]

At least they got some bodybags

 

[Rematch]

[Troll mode]

Did they at least have Cobra Kai emblems on them?

[/Troll mode]

 

[Limbo Pete]

The real story:
> Government announced $4.8 billion to tribal governments, money was to be distributed in April
> Tribal governments got into a spat because some money went to an Alaskan corporation and there's an Alaskan native working as assistant secretary in Indian affairs
> Money got held up because of the legal battle

Uh, that's actually a huge deal. The Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Tara Sweeney, is a shareholder, former executive, and lobbyist for a large Alaska Native Corporation. Her husband is also a lobbyist for one. While their legal status is unique and complicated in its own right, Alaska Native Corporations are not tribal governments. Money from Alaska Native Corporations goes to individuals, not typically tribes themselves. They are business that operate for individual profit. As such, they are open to getting the kinds of covid relief available to any company; including them in the pool designated for tribal governments was an massive cash grab. Sweeney is a stakeholder in this. The money being held up is iirc about 40% of the total, which represents an enormous amount that won't be going to tribes- many of which are still in desperate need of funds- but rather to private companies.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

 

[tonni]

You're a sucker if you read the story before blindly commenting on the title + byline. Just be lazy like @tonni, call it racist, and move on.

 

[jrams]

That's not by accident.

No need to play dumb. Your comment directly contradicts what is in the article and implies malicious intent, clearly implying it is because they are Native Americans that they are being intentionally fucked with. It's laziness.

From the article (5th paragraph):

Lucero said the body bags were a mistaken — yet nonetheless macabre — delivery from a distributor via King County's Public Health Department.

Abigail Echo-Hawk, the health board's chief research officer, said she believes that the message it sends, even unintentionally, is resonating in Native American communities across the United States during the pandemic: There is a pressing lack of adequate resources and funding as promised.​

 

[Merlotte's]

Uh, that's actually a huge deal. The Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Tara Sweeney, is a shareholder, former executive, and lobbyist for a large Alaska Native Corporation. Her husband is also a lobbyist for one. While their legal status is unique and complicated in its own right, Alaska Native Corporations are not tribal governments. Money from Alaska Native Corporations goes to individuals, not typically tribes themselves. They are business that operate for individual profit. As such, they are open to getting the kinds of covid relief available to any company; including them in the pool designated for tribal governments was an massive cash grab. Sweeney is a stakeholder in this. The money being held up is iirc about 40% of the total, which represents an enormous amount that won't be going to tribes- many of which are still in desperate need of funds- but rather to private companies.

Native corporations put a lot of Alaskans to work but like any Corp can be run by some shady motherfuckers. I’d shit on them more if they didn’t have a lot to offer for Native people who want to further their education and work.

It’s true what you say about money from Native Corps going to individual(shareholders) and not tribal members. You could be a full blooded tribal member and never get a cut of profits made off your ancestors land unless you are a shareholder. I know some people who have received payouts of up to $60k because they are a shareholder of an oil producing native Corp. I’ve tried desperately to hook up with these women, to no avail. My lady has some nice hunting land though, and is far more attractive than those who live near the North Pole. Got to count for something.