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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 868821">What the current approach implies is that the supplies and equipment produced will go to the orders placed first or the highest bidders, not necessarily where they are most needed.  If a private producer has more orders than can be filled immediately, you are leaving it to that company to decide where they go.  Or, as Trump stated, "We are not a shipping clerk", which is exactly what he needs to be, directing where these products go.  Since the Administration has been gutted of expertise, that may not be possible.In the "closing the barn door after the cow got out" department, for those stuck at home and interested in matters of bureucratic competence or lack thereof, I suggest reading Michael Lewis'  "The Fith Risk".  That's if Amazon will even ship it as a non-essential.As for the Pentagon and the Army Corps, they are are on stand-by, not in the fray.Hospitalized patients is not a good measure of the extent of the crisis.  There are only so many beds.  If demand exceeds supply then....</blockquote>

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