Lompoc Prison Could Delay Reopening of Santa Barbara County

State Government

The destructive policies here in Santa Barbara are the results of State, County and City governments, not the Feds.

SAM: Correct. The federal government issued guidelines, made financial relief decisions, and mobilized assistance, but left all the policies in the hands of the States and local governments. That was a very smart move since it respects state's rights while insulating the federal government against blowback. This was inevitably going to be a bumpy ride with people's lives impacted by all sorts of ill-received policies. The majority of finger-pointing should be reserved for Governors and local leaders.

Opps, forgot to edit before posting.

Not a conspiracy at all. Deflection Fail.

The COVIDIOTS are out in force today. National disasters are the purview of the federal government. The conspiracy nonsense is just that.

@1:52 PM- Good try but Trump was in China last November as well. Did Fox News not mention that? So you should ask the him the same absurd question.

There is nothing absurd about those questions @1:52 pm. I think they are vary valid questions.

There's a website for the BOP that shows over 800 cases in the two prisons and 25 staff infected. https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/

What specifically are they “secretive” about? Their public website offers more than the county does

Count the employees but not the prisoners ?

Slipping into Socialism? Were workers have paid days off and health insurance so they don't have end up working while they're sick? I'll take that aspect.

You had me till the last part.
You all realize the face protection deal is a placebo don't you?
Ever here of a product for dogs called the Thunder Coat?
Silly humans.

We are not "slipping into socialism", we are running rapidly into fascism. Trump announced to day that his government is going to spend billions of dollars on buying products from private food industries to prop those businesses up. This is the person who ordered workers back into the meat industry despite the huge risk of Covid-19 infection they face. No executives of these businesses are being told to go onto the butcher shop floor and breath for 8 hour days.

LCP--it is civilized of you that you not suggest we simply let them die and save the taxpayers the money for incarceration and medical treatment. You are a warm and considerate fellow American.

Thank you @4:35. I think it's disgusting, sad that some commenters suggest groups of individuals should catch the disease in order to get rid of them. Really scary that Americans, or any human being would with this upon anyone.

-wish this upon anyone.

It's forced labor in hazardous conditions.

I love watching Democrats lose their shorts over the president who was elected by the majority. It amuses me. FIFY :)

Except only low-information cons think that Trump was elected by a majority.

He wasn't elected by the majority though :)

Meanwhile, Gavin Newsome bought 990 million dollars worth of masks from China.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-20/gavin-newsom-n95-masks-byd-chinese-company-california-legislature

He was given no alternative by the President. Each governor was to fend for him/herself. Instead of a national unified buying power we have 50 states and more territories vying with each other, allowing the vendors to constantly jack up prices. And, according to this morning's LA Time, substantial amounts of this deal have been recovered and abrogated. By the way, one of the middle men was the former Republican Attorney General of Georgia as I recall. Wonder how he got in this business?

The story you’re referring to appears in today’s Washington Post, and after reading it I have one really important question. In the article Michael Bowen says of his company (Prestige Ameritech), “We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines…Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation…My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.” The WP article continues, “In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.” REALLY??? I thought his phone was ringing off the hook??? I know that I could not find N95 masks anywhere, and neither could anyone else. This exchange between Bowen was reportedly back on Jan. 23, which means that by now he could have made an additional 25 million mask as of today’s date (when this WP article was published).

Meanwhile the federal government is competing with the states for purchasing masks.

Who cares about the government. The states compete to purchase masks so they can stockpile them and then complain they don't have enough. I'm talking about everyday people who are being ordered to wear masks, but can't buy them. Bowen's company could have made and sold 25 million N95 masks to American citizens who need them, but he didn't. He's says he's, "a patriot first, businessman second." No he's not, or he would have manufactured the masks. I think he's the opposite. I think he was looking for a lucrative government contract where he could justify selling the masks to the feds for $50/each because, "Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive."

You conveniently left out the part where he is selling masks to FEMA at 79 cents a piece with existing working equipment. " On April 7, FEMA awarded Prestige a $9.5 million contract to provide a million N95 masks a month for one year, an order the company could fulfill without activating its dormant manufacturing lines. For the masks, Prestige charged the government 79 cents a piece."

I left it out because it's immaterial. Are you not following the conversation? This was about reactivating his dormant equipment (at great cost) and the government apparently had little interest. If you argue he wasn't going to put a surcharge on the masks, why didn't this great patriot just make them and sell them directly to the American citizens who have been clamoring for them? Why cross his arms and decide to keep the machines mothballed? There's something that doesn't add up about this story and it's too bad if you can't see that.

Yeah this story made no sense. Either the guy with the mothballed machines is a complete blowhard (best case scenario) or a crook... because his position and statements make no sense. He’s claiming to have the means to make millions of the products that literally every single government (and by extension person) desperately wants and is wildly overpaying for... but he won’t do it? What great cost and difficulty could it be to get new machines up and running to make a product that you literally could sell as many as you could make as fast as you could make them. That story needed to be fact checked by the WaPost as it was obviously At the very least wildly incomplete... And more probably total BS.

Yeah this story made no sense. Either the guy with the mothballed machines is a complete blowhard (best case scenario) or a crook... because his position and statements make no sense. He’s claiming to have the means to make millions of the products that literally every single government (and by extension person) desperately wants and is wildly overpaying for... but he won’t do it? What great cost and difficulty could it be to get new machines up and running to make a product that you literally could sell as many as you could make as fast as you could make them. That story needed to be fact checked by the WaPost as it was obviously At the very least wildly incomplete... And more probably total BS.

@ 7:07 so the Federal government shouldn't be buying masks? Sounds like they're damned if they do (buy masks), damned if they dont (buy masks).

There's a wealth of historical information about him, you just need to be willing and able to use Google.

Kushner was assembling a team of handpicked corporate volunteers to procure protective equipment. The group, which included recent college graduates who had no experience with disaster response or supply procurement, had little success.

@ 4:55: where did you get that nonsense, unless you mean Newsom sent $1 Billion to Communist China for the $5 masks, which have yet to be delivered? Must have come from The Washington Compost or the Trump-hating NPR. The U.S exported masks to Communist China (3M Corporation), we did not buy them from there, they came from TAIWAN! From many sources, including Business Insider, "Taiwan made a donation of 500,000 masks to the US in order to supplement the dwindling national stockpile." So, as usual, more unsubstantiated, false. and twisted news from the MSM.