If you watched this afternoon’s infuriating WH covid “briefing” on the efforts to get hospitals and health care workers the supplies they need (part of which was delivered by known charlatan, ass-kisser, and liar, Peter Navarro), then you heard the bald admission that the federal government is acquiring equipment from elsewhere in the world and handing it to “six private distributors” who will decide which bids to accept from the governors—or from any other bidder! To the question “why are governors in a bidding war” like “eBay” instead of benefiting from a federal government supplying these essential goods, the answer was that the administration will not “disrupt the supply chain.” In other words, the funding that is coming from the federal government to states and hospitals from YOUR TAX DOLLARS is going to be shoveled right into private pockets at inflated prices. It’s not a bug—it’s a feature.