Why were they banned from wearing masks?
Probably for the same reason whenever any truth is tempered with someone's agenda bad things happen.
If the story was:
They didn't have enough masks, so management, when they realized allowing the staff to bring their own from home was a possible route to a liability suit because they could not guarantee a consistent degree of protection across a myriad of individually sourced masks, decided to bar the use of any not sourced through the facility directly...
Everyone involved may have been able to confront that issue in a timely manner, and worked together to develop an alternative plan to source masks.
But, I suspect there's something about the way the issue of there being a shortage was approached.
And then, keeping with the same, the raw truth verses an agenda, theme, one has to wonder what would have happened if the feds had actually stepped in, as they had in the past during national emergencies, maybe the supply chain would have been evened out.
Or the state, conversely, may have to create relationships with other states on their own, as Gov. Newsom of California announces his
"bold plan to get California 200 million masks monthly" and talks about forming alliances with other states..
From:
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/healt...417dd78a06
"In an effort not to play small ball, in an effort to really organize, to meet the audacious goal that we have of over 500 million PPE… we decided to retool our efforts, refocus on our vendors, refocus on our supply chain," Newsom said.
"California has partnered with powerful non-government organizations (NGOs) to create "pipelines" for medical supplies. Additionally, the state is working with large vendors through direct contracts to provide more PPE"
"We are not just looking at supplies in a scarce marketplace where it's a zero-sum game," Newsom said. "We are being additive. We're looking at where [we] have an abundancy in this respect, increasing supply, and how California in this case has been a catalyst to increase supply. That will not only avail itself to the state of California, but more broadly across this country and potentially other parts of the globe."
But I am sure, no matter, there will always be other scapegoats offered up. Maybe someone will suggest it's the fault of the people who went out and bought masks that were already in circulation on our retail store shelves as soon as the first whiff of smoke arose over the horizon?
I don't know, if fault is any more an issue considering the horror confronting us, maybe it's all mine? If you really want to pin it on someone Paul, how about me?
I feel horrible for the people involved, am scared for that community. Consider, if you will, that people, many people all over Maui, have been going there, to that facility, over the last few weeks bringing them masks. Homemade masks. And that's a drop in the bucket compared to all the other points of contacts between people directly exposed and all those they came in contact with.
If we, collectively, dodge a bullet with that possible cluster of contamination on Molokai, wow, that alone will be miraculous. But this cluster on Maui, I have a hard time thinking this isn't the beginning of a story that will effect many people's lives on Maui. And, who knows, may have already reached our shores too.
