Posted on 03/10/2020 11:23:48 AM PDT by mikelets456
ALBANY, N.Y. – What do you do when fear over the new coronavirus leads to a shortage of hand sanitizer?
If you're the state of New York, you make it yourself. Or you have prisoners do it.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday the state had begun producing its own line of hand sanitizer, known as NYS Clean. The state will distribute the products to schools, local governments, prisons and other public entities free of charge.
The low price of making the sanitizer in house – $6.10 a gallon – will allow the state and local governments to save big, particularly when a coronavirus-fueled run on the product has led to rising prices if you're even able to find it at all.
But it's the way the state is containing its costs that has some lawmakers and advocacy groups alarmed: By paying prisoners as little as 16 cents an hour to make it.
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New York’s hand sanitizer is 75% alcohol. They probably have a prisoner waiting list for who get to make it. These convicts will be drinking the stuff.
Make them useful.
#$15! Inmates should go in strike ‘fo fiteen.
Why aren’t they paying $15/hour?
Feel the Bern!
Hey I think I just figured out how we can get out of China and all those tech job visas.
A few years ago, an article on hand sanitizer in prisons said that they had to buy sanitizers that couldn’t be consumed for the ethyl alcohol content.
I’m guessing that there will be problems with prison labor.
Under liberal logic people in penitentriary have more “freedom” that those who are not.
They have freedom from hunger, freedom from homelessness, freedom from unemployment, freedom from “gun violence”.
Democrat Party ideals.
That’s the sound of the men workin’ on the hand sanitizer ga-a-ang.
That’s the sound of the men workin’ on the hand sanitizer gang.
All day long they work so hard
Till the sun is goin’ down
Makin’ hand sanitizer with a floral scent
And wearing, wearing a frown
If prisons become death camps, will those arrested fight back with deadly force?
Note to self, stock up on ammo
I would have zero confidence in the quality of anything made by prison labor.
It’s mostly isopropyl ethanol, which isn’t as toxic as Methanol, but not as nice as grain ethanol in normal booze. Not that felons care.
Seventy percent rubbing alcohol with aloe vera gel added.
Tito’s hand made sanitizer!
They should strike unless they get vacation and disability insurance!
Wouldn't they be able to use the same ethanol as distilled by the crapload for fuel? That has an additive which makes it unfit for human consumption.
The Pedocrats are impervious to hypocracy.
With ‘special sauce’...
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