Posted on 03/26/2020 1:54:32 PM PDT by bitt
Glad to hear it.
But why didn’t they distribute them? Why sit on them?
Good question. I was thinking the same thing.
“The masks will cost states, counties, and hospitals that need them $5 apiece, with the union connecting hospital procurement officers directly with the suppliers — the union isn’t making a profit from the supplies. They said the state of California, the Greater New York Hospital Association, and health care giant Kaiser Permanente, as well as Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties, were among the groups who are already buying masks through the suppliers the union found.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/seiu-uhw-masks-coronavirus-ppe
Wait. Are you telling me the collectivists are trying to take advantage of this virus?
MF-ers — my daughter works in a children’s psych ward in New Orleans, and she and her coworkers are given trash masks because they don’t have enough N95 masks to share outside of ER and fever wards.
For those who don’t know, SEIU runs United Healthcare.
Can’t speak to the quality of the news source, take everything with a grain of salt.
What I find odd is that a stockpile of 39,000,000 masks was just sitting at a distributor weeks after the call for action went out. On top of that, finding a new manufacturer that can produce 20M more masks per week that the rest of the planet didn’t know about?
For context, 3M is maxing out production lines at 100M per week and they already made them, plus got authorization (legal protection) to provide 95 masks to healthcare from lines that made the same thing but hadn’t been certified by FDA to get there and are expecting it to take a year to double that output (per my read of recent news).
Maybe it’s all on the up and up, but the numbers seem really weird,,,
The same United Healthcare that works through AARP.
Not a story I wish to share now. I lost as a kid. I won as an adult.
39 Million face masks? I heard they were going for $7 apiece on the black market
It takes one machine and one operator to attach new elastic, probably to the tune of 10,000 an hour.
The unions, facebook and apple had a lot of masks. Woner why.
We saw the same thing in Western Washington.
Interesting.
Wonder who the straw purchasers were there...
Supposedly Chinese here who bought masks to send to relatives had them confiscated by Chicom customs and the relatives never got them.
Correction - per the news report 3M will hit 100M per MONTH.
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