Depends on what they are being made of. The ones my friend is making are triple layered denim with is pretty decent. A little harder to breath with than the cheap ones I mow the lawn and blow off the sidewalks with. Obviously not as good as the couple N95s I have but I feel they are good enough for social, store, whatever.
The coastal west coast is killing it, which is why they've gotten their initial explosion under control. Rust belt doing great. Texas looks awful, but I am glad to see the I35 corridor (San Antonio, Austin, Dallas) and Houston with no red at all.
The SEC states in general..
I agree. Mardi Gras was just at the worst possible time. If it had happened a month earlier it would have been so much less of a problem. A couple weeks later and it would have been cancelled.
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Was trade question rhetorical? I understand all what you say and don’t disagree, if anything we should try to start making this all in house, IMHO.it was a dumb idea fueled by someone interviewed by FOX News as well as FOX pundits (ex. Tucker Carlson, interview with Navarro, and Geraldo Rivera), trying to make 3M’s exportation of PPE look evil.
the reality is that there is *one* paper mill that produces the pulp for a lot of 3M's PPE - surgical masks, gowns, etc.
Guess where it is.... British Columbia.
Nanaimo mill churning out pulp for medical masks, gowns
Nanaimo’s Harmac Pacific mill is churning out a double order of pulp to fill an order for a U.S. customer who manufactures surgical equipment such as masks and gowns.
This is stupid small-mindedness. It's just this empty sense of nationalized priority.
3M also sources materials from Latin America. And the n95 masks are made in the US, but from materials that come from countries all over the globe.
Because 3M gets these materials from these places, part of the agreement is for 3M to supply those countries with PPE. Their CEO has talked about this being a "humanitarian imperative."
Trump, and his FOX policy proxies, are trying to vilify 3M by distorting and misrepresenting what the actual exportation agreement *actually* is. And he's doing this - so verbally - because he knows he is facing pressure to make it look like he is putting Americans first.
It's a PR stunt.
Do you want to actually get into a trade war with countries that supply the materials to produce the PPE right now?
Of course not.
So, what's the reason for all of this?
I think you can probably hazard a reasonable guess.
This is stupidity.
For those of us here in WA state that watch the news it was apparent that we were at risk late February when the first WA state death occurred and the virus spread like wild fire in several nursing homes that shared the same staff members. And it quickly became obvious that asymptomatic infected people were unknowingly spreading the disease. The fact that other states did not quickly enact measures to limit the spread of the disease borders on being criminal.
