Posted on 05/09/2020 3:36:37 PM PDT by daniel1212
He cannot produce and sell anything for hospitals and first responders unless it is FDA approved. Without FDA approval it is just a mask not a medical mask with the NIOSH or better rating.
Who’s stopping him?
Honeywell and 3M are US companies and Honeywell has hired hundreds of American workers to make N95 masks in RI and AZ.
What were they thinking? Maybe that this thing would be down to ZERO in no time? That it would be no biggie, not much more than seasonal flu? That the hot spring and summer sun would magically get rid of it? That we'd all be back in church, packing them, by Easter Sunday? That we'd have bent the Covid Curve instead of 80,000 dead in several weeks?
How stupid and missing all the signals, that Federal Government. To miss a chance to go full blast, pre-pandemic, on N95s.
South Korea out here in Asia (and to a lesser extent, Japan) are really showing how it is done. Idiots. Stupid US FedGov.
South Korea is having a second wave.
“the National Council of Textile Organizations and companies like Honeywell and Parkdale Mills which have helped America...”
Let’s see if I can understand this,
coronavirus task force member Peter Navarro said: “The company was just extremely difficult to work and communicate with, meaning Prestige Ameritech, and the government solicited companies through the national council and were pleased with the responses and efforts, and that’s wrong? Who’s the customer here? Someone needs to remind Bowen that government contracting with a company is both earned and has needs to be, at least, half way responsible to the success of the endeavor. He’s not the only company that can produce masks. But he will be the last solicited if he can’t get them produced and on the dock due to poor customer service. No one likes to be put on the back burner. And in this case, like JesseVentura said in Predator, “I ain’t got time to bleed.”
rwood
Sounds like the guy needed government money to get his line back up and running. He probably needed help acquiring raw materials. The government instead chose big companies with working lines and supply chains and got them to ramp up extra production capacity with just a guarantee that the government would buy the excess if domestic demand wasn't taking the excess capacity.
That’s it. That’s all it is.
Bright sounds like a Democrat-rat “Rick Wilson” Republican. Don’t trust him at all.
#43. American in Tokyo. NOT 80,000 dead in several weeks? Try “Several months”.
I detect a distinctly anti-Trump/administration “hidden agenda” to your comments.
In my county, we have had less than 200 deaths despite being right next to DC with one international airport within spitting distance of my house, Dulles International about 30 miles away and the old BWI/Marshall airport about 35 miles away near Baltimore (not to mention Andrews Air Force Base/Jt Base Andrews, Bolling Field, and even Ft. Belvoir’s small plane airport).
We also have Amtrak, VRE, MARC, and other rail-lines that are both coastal and just internal county/state lines, all with PEOPLE who travel all over the world using them.
Not even going to mention the Metro/DC area subway system.
What we lack in the DC area is a real industrial production base, even of small items. The Democrats drove them out of much of Northern Virginia, Baltimore’s manufacturing arena is now a ghost town (I lived there, I know from watching for over 60 years), and DC never had much of anything, and never will).
Sometimes the “back story” tells you what the “front headline” story deliberately omits or doesn’t investigate. This sounds like a vendetta story, in part. With the Wash. Post involved, it is “ in whole”.
“””How stupid and missing all the signals, that Federal Government. To miss a chance to go full blast, pre-pandemic, on N95s.””””
Only ONE little problem with your great theory.
NONE of his N95 mask making equipment was operational and Bowen wanted a bunch of money from the Feds to rebuild it, with no indication as to exactly when he would produce his first mask.
.dude I heard on the radio early on?
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I remember that, too. Must have been a caller to Rush.
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Ya know-I think you may be right. Might have been - I listen to him now and then-not lately though.
Sorry for not seeing your reply, but in answer to your ?, the article says,
. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.” And in contradiction of itself, as post 31 shows, April 15, 2020 WaPo states that “Prestige Ameritech, the largest domestic mask manufacturer, is charging FEMA about 80 cents per mask for the government’s order of 12 million N95 respirators, part of a $9.5 million contract that started April 7.”
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