Unprecedented federal interference
On April 11, during the peak of COVID-19 cases and deaths in New York City, the Federal Emergency Management Agency intervened and demanded orders of medical equipment allocated to our relief efforts be redirected to the federal government. FEMA then seized 50,000 N95 respirators we had ordered without giving us an explanation or telling us where those respirators were going.
In my 15 years of working in the manufacturing industry with international and domestic supply chains, I have never — never — had the federal government interfere like this.
It wasn’t long before I realized it wasn’t only happening in New York and New Jersey. FEMA confiscated San Francisco’s PPE order as it went through Customs, even as the Trump administration told states and cities to procure their own equipment rather than rely on the federal government. Since those reports of FEMA quietly seizing materials, at least six states have lodged similar complaints against the federal government interfering with their supply chains.
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It is not illegal for the government to seize and distribute medical shipments through the Defense Production Act, yet our government has failed to be transparent with the public about how and why it is redistributing the resources of cities, states, and private organizations like ours.
Bring manufacturing back to America
Over the past two decades, I’ve fought as our nation off-shored millions of American manufacturing jobs overseas. Most PPE and other medical equipment are now made in China, which has to lead to an increased difficulty for the government to produce and distribute crucial resources during a disaster. This, in addition to FEMA’s track record of inefficiency and failure to provide adequate disaster relief, has led to the government’s shortage and is likely why they’re taking equipment from a small volunteer-driven coalition that was able to leverage its resources and know-how to do the job they couldn’t do.
International production lines are taking weeks to deliver the resources we need to keep people alive. If we were manufacturing PPE and medical supplies in the United States, it would take mere days to deliver protection to frontline essential workers where it’s needed. Reshoring the production of PPE and other essential public health resources permanently could also bring millions of good manufacturing jobs home, at a time when more than 36 million Americans have filed for unemployment.
As we pass 1.4 million confirmed U.S. cases of COVID-19 and 87,000 deaths, with thousands more projected daily, it’s clearer than ever that we as a nation will need to hold our government accountable for the series of systemic failures that led us to the point of FEMA seizing PPE from nurses, state governments and non-profit relief efforts without explanation or transparency. Source: USAToday
Bob Bland is the founder of Masks for America, leader of the Women’s March, and a manufacturing and supply chain expert as a founder of Manufacture New York. Follow her on Twitter: @bobblanddesign
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