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?
What I was thinking.
If the government would not buy he appears to have been able to make a ton of money off the private sector.
Gotta’ throw the BS flag on this one.
A careful reader. I questioned and posted on that also, before I read your post.
Well, didn’t take long for you to destroy the guy’s narrative...
BS. He wanted the Feds to front him an enormous amount up front. If it was valid he could have easily gotten the money from a bank. I doubt that his “production lines” were in a serviceable state. Why wasn’t his production line running in the first place, why was it dormant?
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.
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.