The following report is from ABC 7 News Bay Area:
One week after the ABC7 I-Team uncovered millions of dollars in PPE sitting in the rain in San Mateo County, comes a familiar sight in San Benito County, where thousands more boxes of PPE are not only sitting outside in unwieldly stacks, but heading to the recycling center to be shredded.
So, what’s going on?
When ABC7 I-Team reporter Dan Noyes toured the San Mateo Event Center parking lot, he found, “hospital gowns in all different sizes. Here’s size M, there’s large, and of course, here’s double XL.”
That investigation from last week is getting a huge reaction across the country with more than 600,000 views on TikTok alone. ABC7 I-Team’s Dan Noyes received many comments on the report, but also tips to investigate.
One of the tips came from Louk Markham and his wife. They saw something familiar in San Benito County to last week’s I-Team report from San Mateo County, showing all that PPE, including hospital gowns, sitting in the rain.
Louk Markham explained that his wife was, “watching the video and it’s the same company. She says, ‘Louk, that’s the same company over on Shelton Drive. If they’re letting it sit out in the rain of San Mateo, what’s going on over on Shelton Drive?'”
The Markhams messaged the I-Team, so Dan Noyes met them in Hollister Tuesday, went to the ICU Eyewear warehouse, and found thousands of boxes of PPE stacked high, containing millions of plastic face shields. Some of the columns were on the verge of collapsing, and forklifts were loading them on to flatbeds.
We followed the trucks to a nearby recycling center and saw the face shields going to the shredder.
Louk Markham told us,
To throw away PPE, that’s outrageous. I’m a COVID survivor. This is a still a pandemic. We are going into year number three. This is not okay.
Markam took his complaint to his county supervisor. Board Chair Bea Gonzales told the I-Team,
I discovered that these masks were being destroyed at the request of the federal government.
Dan Noyes asked, “Why would the federal government be requiring this county and this business to destroy face shields in a pandemic?”
Gonzales answered,
That I couldn’t answer you. And as I said, there’s more questions than there are answers and the further questions we ask, the bigger the hole gets.
ICU Eyewear’s CEO Kirk Hobbs declined to be interviewed on camera or have a recorded phone conversation. He told us Wednesday the face shields are not being shredded on orders of the federal government.
Hobbs says there was no market for them, and that his staff looked for someplace to donate the face shields, but failed.
I understand how bad this looks. Optically how wasteful this is. We didn’t come to this place without trying. We put in a great deal of effort to find a place where they can be used.
He said.
Supervisor Gonzales is concerned about PPE being destroyed, and about the impact on the county’s landfill, saying,
We have an issue right now with our landfill in that we are in near the 15-year life capacity. So does this refuse that’s been put into our landfill, does it belong somewhere else and not in San Benito County?
Hobbs also told us, ICU will be able to recoup some of the tariffs they paid to import the face shields from China.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
There is no question, in my mind, that this was certainly deliberate. Why? Conservative and alternative media outlets will be quick to blame Biden and the state of California for wasting our hard-earned tax dollars, but that is not the answer, only a fraction of it.
I could be wrong, but I believe that this was done as a similar action as to what the U.K., Ireland, Denmark, and some other nations are starting to temporarily undo their mask mandates and other restrictions; as I think this another subtle way of doing that here in America perhaps. With the masking restrictions going away in other nations, I believe it is designed to try and let more of the vaccinated shed their ingredients; something the vaxxed can do, as proven in other reports. Moreover, destroying this PPE will add to the tensions at the hospitals and healthcare facilities.
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I think another question to ask, is, was this more locally-centered told this was going to happen, or did they genuinely stumble upon this?
Lord only knows, but this is definitely fishy.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I have mixed feelings about this:
One side of me says great burn those masks burn them to ash, while another side of me is saying “what are they preparing for? This seems so eerily sudden when typically revolts and turn arounds are done in increments.”
They are probably trying to appease the liberals and “centrists,” but have no intention on wanting people to wear masks and do all the little Covid-related things.
Hmm, that’s a peculiar agenda, again mixed emotions and cautiously optimistic.
Jacob urgent message:
You’re being attacked and dogged by a bunch of disgusting stinky discord sowing monsters, they’ve gone on some of your reports and come out like rats from a sewer and I hate it! I know you’ll suffer as a true believer, but I hope there’s a verse that supports defending said believers. Not the papal infallacy heresy (I.e., be careful how you talk about the man of god) not like that, but defending you like a Good Samaritan or something.