I just glanced at an article that was about a northern Texas company that makes surg masks - something about it’s running full bore and can’t keep up with worldwide orders.
Push come to shove we could occupy it hahaha
The poor bastard who runs that company was almost in tears talking about how he's been telling the feds for years that this would happen. Been studiously ignored.
Its something like he's undercut in price even though the Chinee ship the cloth to Mexico to be assembled. He's survived by selling to institutions that wanted to avoid this cluster. I remember John's Hopkins for one. His new customers got religion during the other pandemic scares, but would always go cheap again when things went back to normal.
Heard him on Steve Bannon's Pandemic web stream. Worth a listen.
I think Peak Prosperity (could be wrong) interviewed the owner. The owner stepped up production and developed more equipment during SARS. He was left high and dry by our government. He does not want to live with all the layoffs he experienced last time with out assurance this time that his scaled up efforts will be protected.