So, if I understand this correctly, organizations that do not have the tremendous purchasing power or the seemingly deep pockets of state government managed to acquire supplies and the state, rather than actually buying those supplies themselves previously, are going to simply seize them. I mean…it’s not like the state had resources and buying power to purchase these things months or years ago, right? Right?
TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – Gov. Phil Murphy has given New Jersey State Police orders to take N95 masks, ventilators and other personal protective equipment that health care facilities need in their race to slow the spread of coronavirus.
“While we look forward to these facilities cooperating with us and providing this equipment as needed, this order gives (police) the express authority to requisition it for distribution to our acute care hospitals and other healthcare facilities,” said Murphy in his daily COVID-19 briefing. “And needless to say, they badly need the equipment.”
This is why the first rule of Prep Club is……….
I am actually suprised this has taken so long. We are now quickly over the mountain.
This happened to my task force when we were deployed to Mississippi for Hurricane Katrina. The supply convoys were being hijacked by every Sheriff between Florida and the distribution point we had set up in western Mississippi, and the cops were simply taking what they wanted.
Nevermind that the state distribution point was trying to distribute supplies to where they were needed most, every tinpot dictator with a gun and a badge along the supply route was taking whatever they wanted.
The lesson there is that the people with the guns don’t go hungry.
Divemedic:
What would have happened if you refused to hand it over without signed authorisation?
Would they have pulled weapons?
I would LOVE to have heard their bosses explain that…
How many did you go back and arrest for armed robbery? Thugs with badges,throw them in jail with everyone else(no special treatment)
I’ve seen it done more than a couple of times in several countries… Food, medicine, fuel, supplies etc. Funny thing, most of the time the stuff ends up in the hands of the “essential personnel” and their families – you know,the ones that confiscated it in the first case… Hmmmmmm.
Regards
I wonder if they leave an IOU note behind.
Well.
On face value, that seems like it won’t end well for the storm troopers.
Then again, it’s New Jersey. Those chains probably feel nice and comfy after all these years.
Bingo
I hav been accused of being a hoarder by family members because I followed Ready.gov guidance and had masks on hand. A total of 20. Good thing they don’t know about the other stuff. Opsec is absolutely essential.
So a smaller rural hospital that currently isn’t using their 2 vents gets them high jacked and a week later, when they need the vents, some other hospital gets their vents high jacked and the patient that needs them has to wait hours (more?) to get what should be available in a few minutes.
BTW… All that stuff coming into hospitals is assumed to be contaminated and has to be cleaned/sterilized before use. And right now the PPE, cleaners, enzymatics and such that central services use are in short supply.
This is another good example of .gov shifting the consequences of not being prepared onto the shoulders of those who are.
It’s not very far fetched to imagine a scenario where .gov declares anything over a three day supply of food or a weeks supply of meds in your home to be hoarding.
You’re sitting back smugly enjoying the feeling of having a basement full of preps when there is a knock at the door. You open it and there is your local town cop/sheriff/state trooper accompanied by some guy in a FEMA windbreaker and 4 or 5 National Guardsman.
They ask about the 300 pounds of rice you bought 2 months ago at Sam’s Club, as shown on your credit card receipt and their copy of the Sam’s Club account statement that lists your purchases.
Also, the electronic prescribing system used by just about all healthcare providers shows that, having seen the writing on the wall, you managed to get a 2 month supply of your wife’s hypertension medication and a good selection of antibiotics ‘just in case’.
So you’re ordered to turn in any excess above the new limits so that it may be added to pooled resources for the ‘community good’.
But don’t worry! If you need more food or meds you can just go down to the “Emergency Community Resources Center”, present your ID and get what you need!
A week later you go to avail yourself of these things and after standing in line for an hour you finally show your drivers license and ask for some food and meds.
Some.gov drone looks at a laptop and observes that there is no record of you having registered for ‘volunteer’ work crews to help at the hospital, dig graves, help with sanitation, etc. Come back and see us after you’ve registered for a work party.
Food is a weapon. Those who have it can control those who don’t.
David Beasley, the World Food Programme’s Executive Director, speaking via videoconference from Biel, Switzerland, elaborated on those points, saying that hunger was on the rise worldwide mostly because “people won’t stop shooting at each other”. With terrorists using food as a weapon of recruitment and war, the United Nations, donors and Member States should use food as a weapon for reconstruction, peace and to bring people together. – https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sc13262.doc.htm
Translation: The UN should use food as a weapon to enforce our agenda, whether people approve of that agenda or not.
If it gets bad enough that door to door thievery starts, you are mostly likely dead anyway. As will most people.. It will take years for the survivors to start living as well as a immigrant in 1750. The death rate will……be amazing. I expect a “Brave New World” kind of place. A few enclaves modern, outside the walls a Mad Max world.
If “they” start going door to door then why would you wait and only start shooting when “they” get to your front door?
No one is going to risk a bullet in the back for a sack of rice. Especially rice for someone else.
Ah, “cohorting” – it is being bandied about even in the small enclave here…inventory numbers and usage rates are demanded and we all know what will come of it. In the end, buying what YOU need with cash is the only way to have a modicum of security. I used to have one of those truck boxes loaded with stuff and things so that I could wheel it out – this is it, all I have – and hope it was believed. I can see now how it was not a bad idea…
Costco keeps your receipts in their computer indefinitely.
Next step is the authorities going to them and asking who has ‘critical’ supplies so they can show up at your door and take them.
The first rule, WHAT MASKS and SUPPLIES are you talking about? Fight club, what fight club?
OPSEC everyone
There is no such thing as Prep Club….
Prep Club? Never heard of it…
I am shocked! Shocked, I say, to find out that government is force.
You want my property?
Bring friends, well-armed, and leave the married men at home.
Then we’ll decide who owns what.
I will not be re-writing Solzhenitsyn’s Lament someday.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.“
Straight up
and as the Warsaw Ghetto resistance demonstrated in WWII, the time to stop pacification by force is when it first begins, not at the end.
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.” – Winston Churchill
My last act, before dying in the hail of gunfire, would be to trigger the incendiary devices to burn it all.
Nero Decree