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California once had mobile hospitals and a ventilator stockpile
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Posted on 03/28/2020 7:40:56 PM PDT by Biser

They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours.

Each hospital would be the size of a football field, with a surgery ward, intensive care unit and X-ray equipment. Medical response teams would also have access to a massive stockpile of emergency supplies: 50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators and kits to set up 21,000 additional patient beds wherever they were needed.

In 2006, citing the threat of avian flu, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a powerful set of medical weapons to deploy in the case of large-scale emergencies and natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires and pandemics.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnold; california; coronavirus; hospitals; masksn95; ventilators
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1 posted on 03/28/2020 7:40:56 PM PDT by Biser
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But... but..... Sanctuary cities! But... but..... Sanctuary state!


2 posted on 03/28/2020 7:43:45 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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To: Biser

Democrats ruin everything.


3 posted on 03/28/2020 7:45:30 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Biser

Bump!


4 posted on 03/28/2020 7:45:48 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Too bad CA voters will never hold their government responsible.


5 posted on 03/28/2020 7:51:28 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Biser

Gotta have that bullet train and provide for all those illegal immigrants and their offspring


6 posted on 03/28/2020 7:52:35 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Biser

California once had the rule of law.

Now they are a Mexican colony.


7 posted on 03/28/2020 7:53:10 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Biser

They gave them to criminal illegals and mentally-ill homeless? Well, no wonder they;re GONE and not available, NOW. Nice going, commies, fascists, socialists, anarchists, demonKKKrats... reap what you sow, asswipes.


8 posted on 03/28/2020 7:53:34 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Biser

Spending zillions on high speed rail that has no market and for which only a few miles have been built for about 10,000 the cost was a much better “investment”.


9 posted on 03/28/2020 7:53:38 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Let’s put a ventilator hose up Jerry Briwn’s behind.

No.

He’d probably like it.


10 posted on 03/28/2020 7:56:43 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Biser

Am sure the WaPo, NYT, LA Times, Huffy Post, CNN will be running with this story.

But only because it’s Trumps fault.


11 posted on 03/28/2020 7:56:47 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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The didn’t have $5.8 Million with an M to pay the rent on their storage units but they have $23 Billion with a B to spend on illegal aliens.

https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-ca-taxpayers


12 posted on 03/28/2020 7:58:11 PM PDT by edwinland
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Trump should Compliment Arnold to nicely draw attention to this story.


13 posted on 03/28/2020 7:58:53 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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To: Biser

“”California once had mobile hospitals and a ventilator stockpile””

And then....

Heeere’s Jerry!!


14 posted on 03/28/2020 8:05:08 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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"And so, that year, the state cut off the money to store and maintain the stockpile of supplies... "

I think I remember that episode.

"I got bad news for you Emily. It's just more of them same damn ventilators."

15 posted on 03/28/2020 8:07:58 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: jcon40

Brilliant.


16 posted on 03/28/2020 8:08:42 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: Biser

...and good schools and roads with no potholes and school children without lice in their hair and...


17 posted on 03/28/2020 8:11:34 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Curse of intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything you know won't work!)
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To: Spktyr

“Democrats ruin everything.”

Democrats ruin everything.

Worth repeating.


18 posted on 03/28/2020 8:16:03 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Biser

Sorry, buddy, we’re out of ventilators. Try a Moonbeam instead!


19 posted on 03/28/2020 8:16:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Biser

I’m surprised MSN published this.


20 posted on 03/28/2020 8:32:24 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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