A president who promised competence was caught flat footed by agency failure, supply chain woes and inflation, and baby parents are now in a panic.
At the outset of his presidency, Joe Biden promised competence by a bigger, better government. A few days ago, one of his loyal allies exposed a gross incompetence by federal officials on Biden’s watch that defied that promise and inflamed a baby formula shortage now panicking parents nationwide.
Rep. Rose DeLauro, D-Conn., a reliable liberal ally, unveiled documents showing the Biden Food and Drug Administration was alerted by a whistleblower last fall about potential contamination issues at the Abbott Nutrition baby formula factory in Michigan and failed for months to act aggressively.
“The FDA reacted far too slowly to this report,” DeLauro said in releasing a letter to the Health and Human Services inspector general demanding an immediate investigation to an incident that has led to babies being sickened and dying and a belated recall that has emptied shelves of formula nationwide.
The congresswoman, the chairwoman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, laid out a four-month-long trail of federal bumbles and stumbles: the report came in Oct. 20, the whistleblower didn’t even get interviewed for two months, the plant didn’t get inspected until Jan. 31 and the recall didn’t get issued until Feb. 17.
“Why did the FDA not spring into action?” she implored during a congressional hearing. “Why did it take four months to pull this formula off store shelves? How many infants were fed contaminated formula during this time, by parents who trusted that the formula they were buying was safe? How many additional illnesses and deaths were there due to FDA’s slow response?”
Now the bureaucratic stumbling has escalated into a national crisis, as video of bare shelves and panicked parents harken in America some of the same fears and images as the bread lines and rationing that befell the Soviet Union in the early 1990s just before its collapse.
The problems began even before the recall as inflation, labor shortages and supply chain slowdowns began putting pressure on the baby food staple last fall.
In November, baby formula was already substantially more expensive and supply shortages had already risen to 11%. By the first week of April, the shortages had soared to 31%, and last week the number stood at a stunning 40%, according to statistics kept by Datasembly.
The escalating shortages have prompted major stores such as Target, CVS and Walgreens to ration supplies with purchase limits.
“This is a shocking number that you don’t see for other categories,” Datasembly CEO Ben Reich told CBS MoneyWatch on Friday.
The crisis has both political and personal consequences.
Many millennial and Gen Z child-bearing parents were part of the coalition that propelled Biden to his election win. And some parents are now facing life-and-death consequences, especially for children with rare digestive disorders.
“If this doesn’t get fixed soon, I don’t know how my son will survive,” Phoebe Carter, whose 5-year-old son suffers from a rare digestive and immune system disease, told Politico on Saturday. “I just can’t stress that enough.”
The poor and working class – whom Biden promised hope in his inaugural speech – are also disproportionately affected. A food bank in Seattle was so desperate to get some baby formula it recently held an emergency drive.
Alfredo Ortiz, president of the small business group Job Creators Network, said the baby formula crisis follows a pattern of other economic failures by the Biden administration.
“The only thing the Biden administration seems to be efficient at is burying their heads in the sand,” he said. “These are the same bureaucrats that told us for months that inflation was only transitory and would resolve itself. Then they tried to tell small business owners that their supply chain issues had been resolved even though we could all see cargo ships backed up for miles at several ports nationwide.
”Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that they have failed to protect even the most innocent Americans from their incompetence,” he added.
The shortages are also raising fears that parents might be tempted to concoct their own formulas or water down current store-bought formulas to stretch supplies, two actions experts say are fraught with danger.
The FDA strongly urges parents not to make their own formulas, saying contamination and inadequate nutrients in home-brewed formulas can lead to everything from “severe nutritional imbalances to food-borne illnesses, both of which can be life-threatening.”
“Making things at home off of a Google recipe is potentially very dangerous for your baby,” Dr. Stephen Lauer, a pediatrician with the University of Kansas Health System, told WDAF TV station this week.
Meanwhile, parents are desperately pleading for help on social media.
“If the MSM can talk about the toilet paper shortage ever hour, they should be talking about the baby formula shortage at least. …We ended finding the Amazon brand online but not everyone is so lucky to be able to feed that. Please share. This is every store!” Danielle Miller tweeted with a picture of an empty shelve of formula.
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See the 2nd paragraph here –I wish this guy were wrong, but I think he’s DEAD ON
We look to be going into the CHILDREN OF MEN (2007 movie w/Clive Owen) scenario
My sister works for WIC (and hates it with a passion). She told me that the formula shortage started because someone said (the media) that there was going to be a formula shortage. What happened? People went out and bought up all the formula, therefore creating an actual shortage. There are people that don’t even have babies that went out and bought up the formula. Same thing happened with shit paper and so much more. It is a psychological operation being done on purpose.
A side note…my sister told me that WIC encourages and trains (on tax payers dime) mothers to breast feed. Most of the mothers on WIC are young nigs that demand more free shit and refuse to breast feed. I support sterilizing those ferals.
Sorry,but…..THIS IS ALL BY DESIGN!!!!!!!…….,you are doing a dis-service to people with this BS!two things,you sais some agency was caught flat footed and a reliable democrat ally…..piss off you bloody fool!!
Nobody believes your tripe but you!!!…..
In Europe it’s flour cooking oil and eggs that are MIA.
You’re on quite a roll this morning Yoji. I feel privileged to have followed you over these last 6 years.
Why on earth we would be lamenting the loss of something so satanic as baby formula is beyond me. Thank God almighty my journey is nearly over because this world is too screwed up for an oldie like me to keep track of.
Some women can’t breast feed for various reasons. That’s why there used to be wet nurses. But mostly it’s because of the reasons Phoenix stated.
There are milk banks for babies who need breast milk and the mothers can’t breast feed but not enough to make up for a shortage like this.
Discouraging women from breast feeding started long before most of us were born.
My mother formula fed both me and my brother who was born in 1939
There was big money in selling formula. What else would be behind it.
Wet nurses were also for the rich women who did not want the wear and tear of nursing on their breasts. Today, working women are the primary reason for formula.
O and if the mother has been injected with the snake venom commonly referred to as a vaccine, she can pass on the Spike Proteins to her infant child.
Which is why there is an epidemic of uninjected infants are getting their livers ravaged by hepatitis.
The choice is between toxic breast milk or toxic baby formula.
If the Biden Junta Regime wanted to deliberately kill off the next generation of Americans, they wouldn’t be doing much different.
I’m hoping the vaccination my daughter-in-law got prior to conceiving was placebo or saline. She seems fine and never got the flu, so perhaps? Praying, believing.
My new grandbaby!!!!! (Nick’s son, but I’m MeeMaw!) was born at 34 weeks, so was formula fed in NICU and now Rene has been trying, but he is not able to transfer, at least not yet. She pumps her breasts and blends with formula. Perhaps when he is a bit stronger and can suck a nipple more proficiently, she can take over. Sometimes nipple sucking requires practice and guidance. Not everyone gets the technique right away.
(I just hadda say that.)
A baby really does change things. Congratulate me! I’m to be MeeMaw because my DIL informed me MawMaw is too hard for a baby to say. She works with disabled teens and adults, mostly autistic like her son, Michael.
He likes the baby a lot, which is good. No jealousy at all so far.
I’m believing God will protect this one from its parents vaccination(s) months before he was conceived. Praying, believing.
That’s my step-daughter-in-law. Her mother died when she was 17, which is sad but she’s done fairly well for a gal strapped with an autistic baby at 17, abandoned by her Cherokee husband.
She’s a nice, simple girl from Oklahoma. She’s good for my Vinny and she’s produced a grandchild. She’s golden.
I was formula fed…nothing wrong with me. Very healthy. Always have been.
Interesting that you’d trust doctors over me…
No prob. Looks like some caught your misthrown pitch. 🙂
“A president who promised competence…”
Depends what your definition of ‘competence’ is. The destruction of the world IS being implemented with ruthless precision and efficiency. And the Fun has barely Begun.
“The only thing the Biden administration seems to be efficient at is burying their heads in the sand,”
But the people who order his Mic to be cut-off mid sentence are basically FULLY in control.
“Fear Not” is mentioned in some form 365x in the bible, according to trusted sources. My current overall favorite is Doug Batchelor, https://www.amazingfacts.org/
https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/read/c/3/t/storacles-of-prophecy is a great beginner/refresher course of some of the key points based on the KJV.
Spent/Spend an inordinate amount of time ‘brandoning’ in my pants. The Bible seems to cure it if taken on a daily (sometimes multiple doses) basis.
When will it end? “ONLY the Father knows”.
“If it’s in The Bible, i believe it. If it’s not, it’s not for me”.
if you get a minute/are so inclined, never heard the term ‘spergish’. Only could find this,https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%27Sperg
Reference to Asperger’s?
Will watch, maybe clarify depending on my perception. Always assumed ‘cleave’ meant to split apart…until i started reading The Bible. Mother and Father are to become ONE.
Thank You, Please keep up the good work. Video? Basically the truth.
Wow. Lots to unpack with this guy, but don’t have a lot of time right now. I will say if I had a baby at 15, that baby would have suffered. I was way too immature for that.
Also, had two cousins that had babies at 17. Both experienced extreme pain. They delivered at government hospitals where you don’t get pain meds for delivery.
Also, have had women tell me their breasts aren’t what they used to be due to breastfeeding…nothing wrong with that, but this guy seems to say the opposite.
There’s a few other points but I’ll stop.
Several years ago, someone coined the term “To Big to Fail” when referencing big banks. Nobody seems to want to use the term “Too Big to Function” when referencing our government. The primary function of any bureaucracy is to grow in power and budget. In that regard, our government has been a tremendous success. Until we cut the size and scope of government by 90%, we will continue to flounder.
Whenever one of Biden’s actual 40 million or so voters have problems because of the fool they helped put in the close enough to steal it category, excuse me for not giving a shit for them. Because phuck them.
Here’s a good question.
If Abbott is in Michigan,
where were Prog-Lib-Tards Governor Gretchen Whitmore, and her AG Dana Nessell when this was an issue last fall?
Oh yeah.
Gearing people up for more vaxx messaging by the Health and Human Services Department, because of muh Omicron variant risks.
Cue up Howard Jones.
No One Ever Is To Blame.
corporate-manufactured baby formula isn’t available, but it’s not “safe” to make your own
OK
people better get scrappier fast
It’s all part of the plan…
https://socrates-wellness-institute.com/2025-population-forecast-for-america/
Very interesting.
An excerpt from RJ’s link
“Yet, as it’s easy to see, even a 2025 forecast of 100 million people in less than 5 years is STILL DOWN 227 million from the 2017 population of America. How will America lose 227 million people by 2025?
Deagel is forecasting the population of the US to drop from 327 million in 2017 to only 100 million in 2025, while also forecasting a 2025 US military budget of 32 billion dollars, down from a 2017 military budget of $637 billion, while forecasting our population density to drop from 34 inhabitants per square mile to only 10 inhabitants per square mile in 2025.”
That would pretty much cover the loss from the first half of the Tribulation. But that’s sheer madness right. Believers are still here waiting for that great Hoover in the sky to majikly suk them out of here first on account of how they said I do but with lifestyles that say I don’t.
Then of course it can’t happen yet because events of verse j,k,l,m.n. etc. etc. haven’t happened either.
Maybe the guys at deagle read the book and are just spoofing us.
Lived in Honolulu in the early-’80s … had a similar situation with contaminated milk there. The local milk was severely contaminated with heptachlor, yet for a long while the HI government folks continued to let it be used far and wide — including in all of the free food programs in schools.
To make matters worse — once the problem was discovered, State officials refused to let out-of-state milk into HI for fear of competition for its local dairy farmers.
SSDD … over and over and over and over …
ALSO … not to worry about a baby formula shortage — the melamine factories in china are now working, so formula will start to get into the supply chain any day …
Whenever something doesn’t smell right, like when Wal-Mart and CVS started refusing ivermectin prescriptions, I like to check for WEF links. Both of those corporations are WEF “Partners”. So I thought I’d check to see if Abbot nutrition (largely responsible for the baby formula “shortage”) is the same company as the makers of the Abbot rapid antigen test for covid (answer, yup!). Are they WEF members? Yup!
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/abbott-laboratories
This all has something to do with the bidens’ pedophilia scandals, homosexual grooming, and the abortion uprising. Its going to be the summer of 2022 “george floyd” rioting events. But with angry, insane, pierced, purple haired white leftist.
By the way, regular gas is now $4.29/gal here in eastern NC. The people on the local news said it was because of Memorial Day on the horizon.
The one thing missing this current ‘season’ is the annual oil refinery fires/explosions that prepare US for the noticeable increases in oil prices to follow …
Maybe it’s like the way the seasonal flu disappeared during the FauciFlu — this time it’s the food processing plant fires/explosions/airplane crashes doing the duty of disrupting things for US … PLUS the ‘war’ in the Ukraine that TPTB ginned up for our benefit …
But remember that Hurricane Season is just around the corner.
You are right though, people have a short memory, as it was just about this time just a year ago hackers brought down the pipeline on the East Coast and there was the two week gas shortage, it was worse than a hurricane here stress wise. That was a test run to see what would happen, just like covid.
I personally see street fighting by the end of Summer, hope I am wrong.