Sports Media Pass/Fail: Jemele just attacked Pats owner Kraft for being pro Trump after he donated over million masks
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I know people hate on Jamela. However, I will always ride with her. No person is perfect.
And now they like us are paying the price. If we don't bring it up now, people will easily forget in November when it really matters.Wrong time, she needs to stand down. Almost 63 million people voted for trump, he's just one of them like many other white people.
And what's not the truth. FUCK DONALDS SLUT MOTHER AND SLUT DAUGHTER
....I don't give a fuck about the Patriots.
Fuck Boston. The Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, Beeii. Fuck New England Clam Chowder, Boston Cream Pie and Boston Baked Beans....
But respect to Kraft for doing this. Regardless of his political leanings, that's a million and a half more masks than were there before.
Jemele Hill just tweeting for tweets sake. Better to keep quiet.
Fuck Boston. The Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, Beeii. Fuck New England Clam Chowder, Boston Cream Pie and Boston Baked Beans....
But respect to Kraft for doing this. Regardless of his political leanings, that's a million and a half more masks than were there before.
Jemele Hill just tweeting for tweets sake. Better to keep quiet.
He was just on cnn.
He donated a bunch to NY too
He donated a bunch to NY too
Very tone deaf tweet; I get that this is her new lane (e-activism) but she should have picked another fight.
But she got her ESPN money so.....eh...
But she got her ESPN money so.....eh...
When I see a white person, I think they all voted for him.
Those who voted for him, some how know they fucked up. Others don't care because that's "Their Guy" and they vote strictly by party lines.
Most of the time when ppl especially hwhyte ppl tell black ppl it's the wrong time, they really mean... I don't give a fuck....
They did it with Black Lives Matter
Hands up don't shoot
Reparations talks
School shootings
The list goes on..
Hey, when "later" came guess what they said then..."that was (xx) long ago, why bring that up now?"
Fuck that I'm with her.. We shouldn't be praising that mfkr....he helped get that incompetent narcissistic diaper wearing pee fanatic in office. It's only right he helps clean up the mess he's partly responsible for.....
They did it with Black Lives Matter
Hands up don't shoot
Reparations talks
School shootings
The list goes on..
Hey, when "later" came guess what they said then..."that was (xx) long ago, why bring that up now?"
Fuck that I'm with her.. We shouldn't be praising that mfkr....he helped get that incompetent narcissistic diaper wearing pee fanatic in office. It's only right he helps clean up the mess he's partly responsible for.....
Fuck every republican.
Instead of the government working for its citizens, republicans want you to get acclimated to rich people doling out lousy products and heaping praise on them.
Instead of the government working for its citizens, republicans want you to get acclimated to rich people doling out lousy products and heaping praise on them.
it's funny in all this discussion, no one has mentioned the fact that Kraft is doing something the government should be doing. Trump fails again.
Over 280 million masks were shipped out the country on Monday, but we should get happy because 2 million came back?
Americans are dumb.
In hindsight I can kinda see her point bit she needed to express it deeper. Kraft supports and supported a president that fired the pandemic staff so that's a very valid point that she should've expounded upon.
Meaning maybe Kraft wouldn't have needed tho fly the supplies had it not been for the guy he supported.
I get it, but I still feel that it's the wrong time.
Meaning maybe Kraft wouldn't have needed tho fly the supplies had it not been for the guy he supported.
I get it, but I still feel that it's the wrong time.
^^^^^^
And more PLAYERS AND ENTERTAINERS appear to be contributing...
Where the billionaires at?
when is the right time to remind Americans that republicans believe that government is the problem?
Should we do it at the 10000 death? The first half a million?
I Spent A Day In The Coronavirus-Driven Feeding Frenzy Of N95 Mask Sellers And Buyers And This Is What I Learned
For a day I watched the psychology of market pressures play out in an ultra-fast game of finding and selling masks in a pandemic-driven market. My assumptions going in changed after getting an embedded view of what's really going on.
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I Spent A Day In The Coronavirus-Driven Feeding Frenzy Of N95 Mask Sellers And Buyers And This Is What I Learned
David DiSalvoSenior Contributor
Healthcare
You never know what a new day will bring. What started as an early morning call with a friend to help get N95 masks to hospitals in desperate need turned into a roller coaster of contacts in a frenzied, pandemic-driven market. For the next 10 hours, I sat in on calls between brokers selling masks and potential buyers, watching the psychology of market pressures play out in real time as millions of masks changed hands in a matter of hours.
The buyers—from state government purchasing departments and hospital systems representing facilities throughout the Northeast, Midwest and California—expressed desperation for masks to protect their healthcare workers, but in the end not a single deal was completed with any of these groups, and millions of masks were earmarked to leave the country, purchased by foreign buyers.
In the interest of brevity, I’m going to summarize what I learned below and then jump into a bit more detail.
- Millions of N95 masks have been available throughout the U.S., Canada and the UK during the pandemic, according to brokers trying to sell them.
- The high price point per mask, driven by extreme demand, has contributed to an overwhelmed reaction among potential buyers, especially in the U.S.
- Scrutiny surrounding these deals is high because of ongoing scams and claims of price-gouging, both of which are triggering emotionally charged reactions and fear of making deals.
- Millions of masks are being purchased by foreign buyers and are leaving the country, according to the brokers, while the domestic need remains alarmingly high.
My main contact in this frenzy was a medical supplies broker named Remington Schmidt who spends nearly every working hour of the day on phone calls trying to make deals between potential buyers and sellers with personal protective equipment (PPE) available to sell in the U.S. and abroad.
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“This is the craziest market I’ve ever seen,” he told me between calls while scanning through a stream of text messages from sellers and other brokers.
Like most brokers in this market, Remington represented other products before the COVID-19 outbreak and jumped into action to sell masks when the need arose. Just a couple of weeks ago he was selling hazmat suits.
When contacting potential buyers, Remington needs two things to secure a deal with a seller: a letter of intent to purchase and proof of funds.
“If you are working with a seller who has masks but you can’t quickly show proof of funds, someone else is going to buy them,” he told me.
And I watched that happen repeatedly throughout the day. Buyers from state procurement departments and hospital systems expressed desperate need for masks, but the deals bogged down when it came to providing proof that they could commit and follow through. In the meantime, another buyer provided proof of funds and the masks were gone, sometimes within the hour.
The masks in play are those we’ve been hearing about in every press conference since the pandemic began: N95 3M™ brand masks, mainly in model types 1860 and 8210, which, according to 3M™, are “NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) approved for at least 95% filtration efficiency against certain non-oil based particles.” Some buyers are also looking for alcohol-based sanitizer sprays, hospital gowns and a few other items, but mostly the demand is for N95 masks. And the demand is only getting more intense as hospitals rapidly run low on the supplies they have due to increased need for masks to protect staff as numbers of COVID-19 infections, and suspected infections, increase each day.
Remington explained that his business is all about networks. “It’s a contact to contact to contact market.” Through his network of contacts, he finds a seller with masks in a warehouse—several million masks in each lot—and attempts to link the product with buyers in need.
I felt like I was getting whiplash throughout the day by the insane pace of negotiations and how often the price point changed as the market frenzy continued. Prices ranged from anywhere between $6 - $7 per mask depending on volume and location. The same masks were selling for closer to $4 just a week before. (Note: events in this article occurred about a week before it was published and it’s likely that prices have changed since then, particularly since governors held several press conferences citing high prices of masks and concerns about price gouging, which I’m told helped push down prices over the last week.)
Remington received text updates from his network about ever-changing quantities of masks in Houston, New Jersey, Miami, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, along with cities in Canada and the UK. I was astounded by the numbers of masks at these locations. At one point he received an update that 43 million masks were available in New Jersey, in the same time-frame that federal and state leaders were saying in press conferences that they were “scouring the globe” for masks. But the masks in New Jersey, along with many million more, didn’t go to any domestic buyer. Instead, according to the broker, they were all purchased by foreign buyers.
“Most of the masks are leaving the country,” he told me.
That is not the case in countries that have cracked down on exports, he added, but as of now the U.S. is allowing many types of medical supplies to leave the country even as states and hospital systems are expressing desperate need for masks and other PPE.
While he is aware of brokers selling masks that will leave the country, Remington doesn’t participate in those deals. “This is a national crisis and we need these masks in the country,” he said.
Scrutiny in the market is sky high. People are understandably concerned about being taken in scams. The insanity of this market has created opportunities for fraudsters claiming to sell everything from masks to hospital gowns to ventilators, and every potential buyer is on guard to avoid being the next victim. More than once, a representative from a potential buyer also noted concerns about price gouging.
“Some people don’t understand that the market sets the price,” Remington said.
I read through a list of mask lots sent to him from U.S. sellers along with their expected price points and, at that time, none were under $6 per mask. This is clearly a seller’s market and price is driven by demand. (Note my comment a few paragraphs above about likely price changes over the past several days.)
Added to this, potential buyers trying to secure PPE for their medical personnel are often not empowered to make fast, high-dollar deals, no matter how desperately they’d like to close a deal and get masks to those in need. I listened to the range of emotions playing out in negotiations and it seemed to me that the domestic procurement process is simply unprepared to operate in this frenzied market. Individuals want to do the right thing, but the systems in which they operate are hamstrung by rules that weren’t created to approve enormous transactions in hours or less.
By the end of the day, roughly 280 million masks from warehouses around the U.S. had been purchased by foreign buyers and were earmarked to leave the country, according to the broker — and that was in one day.
To his knowledge none of the masks had been purchased by buyers in the U.S.
Remington told me that his focus now is to try to sell masks to federal agencies like FEMA, responsible for securing PPE so the items can go directly to the states that will distribute to hospitals, but it’s been challenging to close a deal and the number of “middle men” in the negotiations keeps rising.
“Many people are marking up the prices in the middle,” he said. “People are just trying to make as much money as possible.”
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David DiSalvo
fuck the krafts!!!!
Oprah donated 10 million and Jeff Bezos donated 100 milion, just two that I heard of today.
As I said, she should've explained her reasoning.
Oh i got a thread going
But these billionaires together?
Not just the celebrity ones we happen to know
Especially these sports owners should be at the front
Some are representing
But they could more much more
Let's see.
Cause i could name more who have done nothing and worse?
Done bad stuff to their workers during this crisis.
For whom? The stand don’t kneel crowd? They’re going to vote for him regardless if he killed their nana
Agreed
I'm guessing she expects her audience to know exactly where she is coming from.
Meanwhile, Trump supporters have dug in and have given this dude a pass once again. No amount of reasoning will allow them to admit anything other than Trump is a great man.
Everybody in between should know what she is talking about.
If they paid taxes of 95% ...
For us the public, we "Black People" want to support what she said. But many are saying that it's the wrong time or shouldn't have been said. If she explained more deeply, we could do nothing but agree.
I'm not worried about or speaking about what white peoples think.
Anyone saying it’s the wrong time needs to get intubated because they’re aren’t using their brains anyway.
Fuck outa here with that it’s too soon bullshit.
E-Activism is so American. I wonder how many masks she donated today. It doesn’t have to be 1.7 million. Based on proportion of Robert Kraft worth (6,900,000,000) and Jemele Hill’s with (4,000,000), she should donate 985 masks or shut the fuck up.
Wrong time, she needs to stand down. Almost 63 million people voted for trump, he's just one of them like many other white people.
I swear a lot of people have TDS (Trump Derangement Symptoms)
I don’t like trump but we are in a National Crisis. Who the fuck cares if they voted for trump. I’m happy they are giving masks.
Most White people are racist and voted for trump. I’m sure the Job you work at the head boss voted for trump.
Shit most white liberals are racist. The only reason why they don’t vote for trump is because the white liberal Hollywood crowd are usually on that homo gay shit and white conservatives are not down with that and pass laws to limit there rights.
The California Governor hate fucking trump guts but he understand it’s a crisis and we need to put our politics aside because the virus will kill you even if your a democrat or republican
Details and specifics are important. I like many know what trump's done, and I still feel it was the wrong time.
State your perspective and reasoning so that it leaves nothing to guess about.
You’re advocating retraining North Koreans to hate their dear leader. That is a waste of energy.
You’re asking the people who think pizzagste is real to have deductive reasoning.
I swear a lot of people have TDS (Trump Derangement Symptoms)
I don’t like trump but we are in a National Crisis. Who the fuck cares if they voted for trump. I’m happy they are giving masks.
Most White people are racist and voted for trump. I’m sure the Job you work at the head boss voted for trump.
Shit most white liberals are racist. The only reason why they don’t vote for trump is because the white liberal Hollywood crowd are usually on that homo gay shit and white conservatives are not down with that and pass laws to limit there rights.
The California Governor hate fucking trump guts but he understand it’s a crisis and we need to put our politics aside because the virus will kill you even if your a democrat or republican
Thank you, everything you typed is All I'm saying!
