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 aren’t there any masks?
Surgical masks, like anything in the medical field, are tightly regulated. You can’t 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.
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Who cares about the technical stuff?
I like that it’s hot pink.
Well they are just ‘saving’ them so they won’t be short for the next disaster.
Like all the equipment NY had ‘stockpiled’.
Why use your inventory when the GOVT will give you all you want.
This BullSchiff gets deeper and deeper every day.
When will the madness stop and the chicken littles be quieted down?
Duct tape, baby!
Like getting a pig to dance.
From the people who brought you "Leading from behind."
But why aren’t there any masks? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
KABOOM.
Just like that, America has a black market.
And millions are being made.
It certainly is - makes it easy to find ; -)
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