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!!!
He wanted a big govt contract. Mike Linden volenteered his factory to make masks. A real patriot would have just ramped up production for the good of the country.