I don't get it.
How long can it take it build machines that produce masks?
It's been weeks with this shortage. By now, there should be some production lines that spit out a couple of million a day off these things.
How long can it take it build machines that produce masks?
It's been weeks with this shortage. By now, there should be some production lines that spit out a couple of million a day off these things.
Depends on the masks. Surgical masks are material-constrained. N95 masks require manufacturing using specialized and very precise machines, which are themselves built in... guess where. China. This pandemic hit the world in precisely the best way to disrupt the global supply chains.
Very simple machines to produce these things.
It’s really absurd how many trillions are being wasted on a shutdown but hospitals don’t have the capability to buy masks.
The problem is the Fed should be competent enough to centralize the process but they seem to have made themselves just one more part of the mess.