The Black Forest

6781. Submitted on 2020/2/28, 7.15 h by Arduenn:

De civiele plicht roept

Nu is de tijd om blikken Smac in te slaan.

In Amerika gaan ze het doen.

[Update] Oeps, ze doen het fout.

"Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint."

"About 14 personnel from the Administration for Children and Families, or ACF*, were sent to March Air Force base in Riverside County, Calif., and another team of about 13 ACF personnel were sent to Travis Air Force in Solano County, Calif., according to the complaint and the whistleblower’s lawyer, Ari Wilkenfeld."

"it broke agency protocol about what kinds of employees should respond to health emergencies"

"The workers’ concerns about potential exposure to coronavirus were not addressed, the whistleblower’s lawyers said. “She was involuntarily assigned to a position in a subject matter where she has no expertise,” Wilkenfeld, her lawyer, said in an interview Thursday. The agency said the reason for the reassignment was “necessary to meet the needs of the department,” according to a memo she received. “If I did not accept involuntary reassignment, I would be terminated from federal service through adverse personnel action,” according to her complaint."

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