Posted on 03/28/2020 12:59:13 PM PDT by rintintin
The media is full of stories of mask rationing and shortages. Health care professionals are reusing masks, slathering them with sanitizer, or substituting scarves in place of surgical masks. Democrats demand that President Trump make more masks immediately using the Wartime Production Act.
But why arent there any masks?
Surgical masks, like anything in the medical field, are tightly regulated. You cant just make a mask. Some masks have to be certified by the FDA and others by the CDC. Some are certified by both the FDA and the CDC.
Until recently, the public had no problem buying N95 respirators for use in construction. These masks are certified by the CDC. Why is the CDC in the business of certifying industrial masks, you may wonder? Because, as discussed previously, the CDC does every possible thing except what people think it does. The component of the CDC that does this is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
NIOSH is not to be confused with OSHA, even though they were created at the same time, through the same law, and serve a very similar function: making this another skein in the infinitely tangled web of the federal bureaucracy.
The Open PPE Project launched an effort to quickly create N95 masks only to be told by NIOSH that approving a new mask production facility would take between 45 and 90 days.
Meanwhile there are reports of large stockpiles of masks sitting around waiting for an FDA inspector.
The United States government has a stockpile of 12 million NIOSH approved masks and 5 million that are expired, and are therefore not approved by NIOSH. Except it may approve some conditionally for use.
The FDA and CDC bureaucracy are not up to speed with the current crisis.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
The FDA and CDC bureaucracy are not up to speed with the current crisis.
So, stupidity, rather than malfeasance?
The Obama administration made a decision to not stockpile the bulk of PPE estimated to be needed in emergencies but to use vendor management.
This was done in the 2010’s under Assistent Secretary for Preparedness and Response (part of HHS) Nicole Lurie who was ASPR the entire Obama administration.
The former head of the CDC under Obama, who maintain and manage the strategic stockpile, was Tom Frieden who also would have been responsible for the decision to use vendor management rather than physical stockpiling.
I bought the proper masks N95 way back in January and do you want to know how many I’ve worn.....none....I did have one of those flimsy ones that I wore going into a store a couple of times but never the N95 masks...
If you need elastic cord, go to Joann Fabric and pick up some of these:
And if you're really in a pinch, try these:
Check Obama’s bath house.
in my garage, needed them all the time(insecticide,sprays ect)so I buy them(bought) them all the time
Same with gloves to grease the Kubota.
Dont have those needs but still got the supplies
Just a couple days ago, my companys office in Korea offered to ship us 3,000,000 N95 masks, at cost, for use in one of our manufacturing plants to give our workers more confidence and protection and to keep them on the job. We also had the notion to donate some to our local school and hospital workers.
Korea (unlike the USA) apparently had the capacity to ramp up its production quickly.
But then I learned
1) the masks were certified CE (for use in EU nations) and not FDA certified, and
2) some hospital administrators we talked to said they wouldnt touch these because of fears of breaking Fed.gov regulations and also fears of ambulance chaser liability if anyone got sick wearing one.
So I told my Korean colleagues - thank you, but Im not getting involved in this mess . Welcome to 21st century America.
They are stockpiled in New York
I wore an N95 mask today. Had to go out into a dangerous area with people.
Bump
It’s the WEEKEND. What’s the hurry. The CDC and FDA will start looking at applications after finishing the celebrations of Black History Month (in June).
I tell you, people are just PANICKED. And for what, just the flu? Right Bro’s?
Just get liberal sharia law in place for all leftist run cities and make everyone wear burka’s to fight the wuhan, so the constitution-hatin mayors can come out of the closet as the allah worshippin bastards they really are.
So we are still strangling in regulations and attorneys. Sigh. You should send this to Trump in some way it gets noticed {if possible}.
Democrats demand............................stuff it!
Union Locates 39 Million N95 Masks To Deliver To Healthcare Workers Treating COVID-19 Patients
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/03/26/union-finds-n95-masks-healthcare-workers-covid19/
I read a diy online that instructed to use the material from furnace filters that are designed to remove allergens down to 0.03 microns. Obviously, it wouldn’t be one that has any fiberglass in it. Just cut out a rectangle of the filter material, then use some kind of thin metal to attach it to tighten around the bridge of your nose, and something to fasten it around your head. I don’t remember all the details, but I just googled (actually Bing) how to make an N95 face mask.
America has been misallocating labor and capital for 30 or 40 years.
What we are finding about this phony crisis is how much lazy fat we have in the healthcare sector.
Some of the stupidest people in world history, appear on my T.V. everyday.
My husband used to be in construction, so we have a couple of N95’s. We use them if we have to go to the store.
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