Except for the part about New York may run out, or projected to run out of supply in 10 days, just about everything else you said in that post are either misinformation or half truth.
1 - The US army already started moving its reserves supply around the country since 2 weeks ago for the short term need, which epic center like New York set to receive priority in the coming days.
2 - That's "here's some money" that you're mocking of is called "federal approved state of emergency", which is something a president (ANY president) only grants at the state request.
3 - Also today, in the morning the mayor of New York asked for the army to be deployed to help, by noon of the same day the WH approved the deployment of the army in 3 states, New York is being one of them.
4 - 2 hospital ships are being deployed on both coasts, with one of them (the Compassion) gonna be in NY next month. It's going through maintenance and resupply and staffing in VA right now. Once it's on station it'll add 1000 beds + that many medical staffs on site.
5 - The WH already signed into effect a law that allows government to compel industrial manufacture to produce needed items.
On point 2 and 3, Trump and NY have a history, and the media is certainly milking it for all its worth if you just mindlessly devouring all those sensationalizing headlines. On point 5, even after that law was signed (which basically clear any legal hurdle) certain sections of the media still try to spin it into a negative prospect in the past week. Fact is, it's not like the government can just go in and say "all of your factory belong to us", even with this law negotiations still have to happen, and then factories can't just be refurbish/reconfigure to produce something else overnight. To give you an update:
- In the past two weeks a large number of cosmetic/distilleries in the US already switched to producing sanitizers, in fact half of distillery in WA state are producing sanitizer products right now. I'm guessing because the production chain didn't need a large modification.
- General Motor since 10+ days ago had started the process of converting some of its manufacturing capacity into making medical supply like mask and ventilator, not that really different then what your RollsRoyce is doing, and 3 days ago Ford, Tesla and SpaceX joint that effort. I also expect more will join them soon once the government work out the agreement with companies. But yes, I'm fully aware if your choice of "news" came from a certain section of the media then you would think "NOTHING" is being done, I know because I ran across those articles myself.
Again, please, we're in the middle of a global crisis right now, and if anyone are going to care please be genuine about it, or at least try to be objective and impartial about it. If people want to criticize government slow response, if you want to complain about lack of resource I would understand. But PLEASE, if you just want to whack on your favorite villain then we already have a specific thread for that, just to echo an earlier request from other posters. There is no need to take every paragraphs, every sentences and butchered them into 101 things to get angry about. In the past two months I had pretty much tuned out anything any one said be it from Trump, McConnel, Pelosi, WHO official, Boris, Merkel or whoever. Heck I don't think I had even listened to ONE statement from the governor of my own state. Rather I track and stay informed of what they had done, what they are doing, and what are being planned to do. Ink or paper, practical action being carried out, objective stuffs like that instead of the sensational yet irrelevant crap the media are trying to feed me.
