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One thing I know is that WHEN we come out of this, we better keep our foot down on the gas pedal for production of masks and ventilators. There will be a next time. There had better be a massive surplus of masks and ventilators sitting around waiting for it. There will be absolutely, positively, ZERO excuse for there not to be.
There was a story I saw on the local San Diego news where they talked about having a stash of masks stored somewhere but they had been sitting around so long that the elastic band deteriorated. I believe they were looking for volunteers to help sew some new bands on.