Note that Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
So, if following lame stream thought process, if PDJT wasn’t going to profit then the offer would be tossed aside. Is that about right?
In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.
This doesn't make any sense. He's getting tons of orders. His phones are ringing off the hook, but he wants to give the government first dibs. The government declines, and production lines sit dormant.
What happened to those tons of orders that left his phone ringing off the hook?
Yet even if they federal government didn't buy any, 50 states and many foreign governments would have bought them. So why didn't they start making them? This has a bad smell to it.
Fake news over nothing.
Nobody is under any obligation to place an order for anything with any one particular company.
Companies like MyPillow.com were far easier to work with on face masks.
If I read the articles about 3M and Honeywell...they have the capability to produce 400-800 million masks.
this guys company, while good for him for trying could only produce 1.7M
He was just blown off because his numbers were in the weeds compared to what was needed.
The amount of paperwork and effort on the part of HHS to procure those 1.7M could probably be used better to procure 10 or 20 times that many from another manufacturer.
Now....what somebody smart should have done is found 15 or 20 of these kinds of companies and convinced them all to form a co-op of sorts...then they would have had the oomph to get noticed....and the smart guy putting it together could skim off a few % off the top!!!
What’s the point of this now..people have masks, people are wearing masks, yet 1,000 new cases here in LA County..I see people everyday walking around here, no one wears the mask, even though they are required to, so this entire BS “Whistleblower” complaint is idiotic
Either the lines were activated to meet the outside demand and since have been shutdown, or they were not needed to meet the demand, while that they are not providing masks now is it is irrelevant now since the US apparently has enough. However, if the story is true, that the US went to outside suppliers vs. domestic is sad.
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“”””Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong. Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech,””””
We need to do some background checks on Michael Bowen and Prestige Ameritech.
1. Does he have a political contribution history?
2. Where are photos of his facility?
3. How many employees?
4. What has been his annual revenue?
Others probably have more things that need to be looked into.
“””“Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.” “””
Another money quote from Wash Pooh. Hey guys send me a gazillion dollars and I will make masks for you. Bowen sounds like Obama’s Solyndra.
This was when Fauci claimed everything was fine. No need to panic
This is the narrative folks. Trump failed the USA in pandemic. Trump is at fault for the economy tanking. Its the economy stupid all over again.
I wonder if this was the same dude I heard on the radio early on? He claimed to be the only USA manufacturer. Said that during other outbreak, he ramped up production-borrowed money to expand based on promises from clients that they would continue ordering from him, and not go back to cheaper off-shore producers.
However, when it was all over, they did not continue, and he had to down-size/lay people off-nearly lost the company etc. and he just could not risk that again. Said he was at capacity and just had to tell people no in order to serve his existing customers. He broke down and cried.
Not sure I bought what he was selling. At any rate, lots of research on this dude is needed.
If Prestige Ameritech was the ‘real deal’ Texas Gov Abbott would have been on the phone in an instant telling President Trump that this guy is great.
Somehow, that phone call did not seem to happen.
Like many other places, Texas has its shysters.
“”””In the early days of the pandemic, the US government turned down an offer [by TX patriot] to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America [whistleblower complaint]””””
It’s illegal for govt administrators to discuss or negotiate contracts unless they are specifically a contracting agent for the govt. Too many crooks already in govt. We don’t need more cutting shady deals. Any company that has done business with the govt in the past knows this.
Come on guys...don't you remember this fellow?
The FakeNews alarms are going off.
*** It was January 22... ***
And in late February GSAAuctions.gov was auctioning Lots of 40,000 N95 masks each out of their Denver Warehouse as surplus.
Hindsight is 20/20.
How does the media spin? Let us count the ways...
1) Per Cuomo and other Dem governors, the federal government bought up all the masks, etc., leaving states dereft. Conclusion: Trump evil.
2) Per this story, the federal government did not buy up Bowen’s masks, leaving a source for state and local buyers. Conclusion: Trump evil.
3) Trump overpaid cronies to enrich himself. Conclusion: Trump evil for wasting money.
4) Per Bowen’s story, he started off the bat saying how incredibly expensive it would be to start up his manufacturing lines. IOW, he was negotiating for high prices based on a claimed need to amortize his startup costs over a relatively small quantity of production. Conclusion: Trump evil for not wasting money.
Seems to be a pattern.