At least half of the people sitting home can get back to work as soon as we can provide masks and gloves for them.
It isn’t masks that are costing jobs, it is the lack of economic activity, and without that, a lot of people aren’t going back to work. I would be interested to see how an employer who laid off his workforce because he couldn’t support them is going to bring them back to stand around with masks and gloves.
We ordered masks over 10 years ago to be prepared. The order was mismarked and we received hundreds of masks, N95's, N100's, P100's and suits. So we called our local hospital and offered to give them hundreds of masks and they refused, due to them being over 10 years old.
I have to say, they are individually packaged in their own plastic, packed 10 to a sealed box, never been opened. Refused them, there is no expiration date on the package. So we called the Salvation army, will you take outdated masks, perfectly new in the package, yep, all of them.