[familyop]

"You can’t just make a mask."

American'ts.

Can DIY Masks Protect Us from Coronavirus?
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/diy-homemade-mask-protect-virus-coronavirus/

Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks [Make your own face mask.]
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3826324/posts

What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks?
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-face-mask-virus/

Don't be scammed by the big corporates or the medical racket. Make your own masks.

[familyop]

And remember that masks are all the rage. They’re in style!

[fella]

There’s a video making the rounds of an Asia Sun-Continent “factory” hand making surgical masks.

[TheConservativeParty]

The Purple People Beaters, aka The SEIU, was hiding 34 million masks.

[doug from upland]

[griswold3]

“Expired” masks?? Wow

[GingisK]

...You can’t just make a mask...

Sure I can.

When I started to setup a manual milling machine in order to show my students how to make a gear, one of them commented, "I didn't know you could make gears. I thought you had to buy them".

[Rapscallion]

SEIU was found with millions of masks stored away for a rainy day. Sheesh!

[lepton]

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.

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And this is part of the pile of crap the President has been faced with at every step, while trying to coordinate response to a rapidly changing event.

This is why we have an Executive in our Constitutional Republic, because that role is the only way to respond quickly, but the bureaucracy is too big - and too uncooperative - to even find these roadblocks in a timely manner.

Recall the whole testing fiasco, where the clamp-down on locally-designed tests was invoked by the declaration of an emergency, requiring all tests to be approved by the FDA and their laborious processes. It took 25 days for that to percolate up, and less than 2 days for the executive to resolve that 1 of many issues coming up.

[lepton]

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.

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They depleted the previous reserve during a previous epidemic response, and then didn’t bother to replace them.

“Expired” just means they have had more chance for the packaging to be compromised and things to begin growing on them. Re-sterilization is the only issue that would seem an issue.

[bitt]

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[windsorknot]

Duct tape, baby!

[Candor7]

But why aren’t there any masks? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

KABOOM.

Just like that, America has a black market.

And millions are being made.