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Subject: Coronavirus/Covid-19 Infodemic/Exploitation.
gt_tdi 5.05.20 - 11:29am
Globalist demon! BURN HIM! * +
piggle 5.05.20 - 02:00pm
Me too. * +
3mel 5.05.20 - 02:41pm
Demons
you shall not PASS * +
cleancut 5.05.20 - 02:49pm
Me too * +
mok214 5.05.20 - 04:36pm
For such a bad pandemic it amazes me that I have not met anyone who was suffering from Covid-19. * +
kimjongl 5.05.20 - 04:42pm
Bernie Sanders wants your money. * +
obi_jon 17.12.20 - 04:03pm
[link]http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/europe/britain-covid-contracts.html[/link]
''Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britains Pandemic Spending
When the pandemic exploded in March, British officials embarked on a desperate scramble to procure the personal protective equipment, ventilators, coronavirus tests and other supplies critical to containing the surge. In the months following those fevered days, the government handed out thousands of contracts to fight the virus, some of them in a secretive ''V.I.P. lane'' to a select few companies with connections to the governing Conservative Party.
To shine a light on one of the greatest spending sprees in Britains postwar era, The New York Times analyzed a large segment of it, the roughly 1,200 central government contracts that have been made public, together worth nearly 
22 billion. Of that, about 11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy. Meanwhile, smaller firms without political clout got nowhere.
''The government had license to act fast because it was a pandemic, but we didnt give them permission to act fast and loose with public money,'' said Meg Hillier, a lawmaker with the opposition Labour Party and chair of the powerful Public Accounts Committee. ''Were talking billions of pounds, and its quite right that we ask questions about how that money was spent.''
The procurement system was cobbled together during a meeting of anxious bureaucrats in late March, and a wealthy former investment banker and Conservative Party grandee, Lord Paul Deighton, was later tapped to act as the governments czar for personal protective equipment.'' * +
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