YES!!!

carboard things with holes in them we played with as children.

He didn't even ask his own daughter's garment company to pitch in.
Wouldn't he want to combat his so-called 'chinese virus' with chinese facemasks?

out of gold lamé.

Despite the fact that this is all scrambling to put together something due to lack of planning and preparation.

The companies doing these things could have started weeks ago if he'd been treating this as a real threat and not a PR problem. Any competent administration (and people have been born and grown to maturity, and maybe to retirement, since we last had a Republican administration that fit that description) would have at least been working up plans and talking with companies about what could be needed way back in late January.

What we'll have by this time in April could have been what we'dve had on hand right now.

He loves saying “my administration...”

Most presidents have used first person plural. “Our administration”.

This is just tiresome. HE is tiresome.

I definitely recall the "Look for the union label" commercials back in the 1970s as a kid, but then, along came Reagan.

open.

We have huge companies--Mohawk Industries and Shaw Industries are just a couple. Mohawk is centered in my neck of the woods. There are other industries that produce fibers for the apparel, textile industries that are located mostly in the SE US.

If not they are useless in a hospital.

Yup

and the CEO worked with WH officials to clear the red tape. We need the masks but I hate that Trump is going to be crowing about it.

public demand for N95 masks, then they will have some usefulness.

Useless

Glorified bandanas.

If John and Jane Q. Public can obtain these masks for walking the dog in the park, then they are less likely to try to obtain N95 masks from a source that steals them from a hospital supply room. That's something that will make more N95's available for health care workers.

There are few N95 masks available for hospitals or the public today.

Go try to buy one.

Anyone using these type of bandana masks just spread the virus.

then, yes, anything less than an N95 will not stop it. But even bandanas have a chance of slowing down transmission of the virus to uninfected people, if used widely by folks going on allowed excursions out of the house.

I'm not going to let the good be the enemy of the perfect here.

The public does not know how how to don and doff any type of medical mask.

They will just spread the virus out of a false sense of security.

They need to stay in their homes.

They WILL go out. And anything that even marginally makes them a little safer is better than nothing.

But, you stay home and be perfect. I hope you've got a giant hoard of food.

Just as effective

The Board of Directors, and the hedge fund guys who probably own most of the company, then decided to do the patriotic thing.

The children's hospital where my wife works they are not allowed to wear masks. Can't give them to her.

The daycare where my kids are, I'm sure they don't want to wear masks. But I donated some supplies that I felt would help.

You can't sell masks or certain hospital grade supplies on craigslist/facebook/ebay/amazon for even normal prices.
Not everyone is in it to price gouge.

Some people just have a small supply, too big for themselves, but too small for any hospital to care about.

What suggestion do you have for us? Just let them rot?
I've mailed some to people I deem higher risk. Ideas please.

I'd call some hospitals or local EMS to see if they could use them.

If no one can take them, I hope they go to waste, that you and your neighbors won't need them yourselves in the near future before Holy Mike Pence's promised "hundreds of millions" start showing up.

"Take what you need leave the rest." will get us thru!

Hospitals everywhere because they're out or running low. Her son is an ICU physician & he & his g.f.'s hospitals are OUT.

She had spent thousands of dollars of her own money buying N95 masks for them.

So, please, folks, donate any extras you can to your local hospitals.

Doctors, nurses, medical staff are in desperate need of protective supplies.


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What you are suggesting is perfect for protecting vulnerable people who are not in a hospital setting, but should still have some protection. The virus can spread quickly in crowded homeless shelters, and those folks always have underlying health conditions making it a possible death sentence if they catch it. Your masks can help slow down the spread.

Delivery people and truckers and anyone else who is working hard to get supplies where they need to go might also benefit if they come into contact with lots of people in the line of duty. Also first responders like police, firefighters, ambulance, etc. Grocery store clerks. Food service workers.

orders for their products when this is over.

They will save lives!

Watch tRump take credit for this!!

Otherwise, not so good.

Isn't this government, from the pleas of state governors, ordering the means of production? Shouldn't we let the free market fix all our ills?

Seems there's been a lot of chatter about this lately, even on DU.

The orange asshole can go fuck himself. We will get through this in spite of the orange asshole.