Burgermeister
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Honeywell makes a lot of PPE in the US and they built new capacity over the Covid crap. I'm sure they got some kind of government guarantees to justify the new plants. Even with that I think they had to do some layoffs last year as the panic subsided.Can someone point to any evidence of the necessary material (especially PPE for healthcare workers) is being made in the US? I work in a hospital and was doing my "rounds" the other day and noticed the gloves, masks, booties, etc... we're buying still made overseas. Purell seems to be made here.
There is the public purchases supplies that we buy--anyone (as far as I know) can call up medical supply store and buy these things. What I'm more curious about though is whether there is a relationship like the Mint has with the dollar bill paper supplier. Is there a state-side company making tens of thousands of tons of nitrile gloves that the Government is buying , stockpiling, etc... that are not commercially available?
This type of move isn't really that far off the mark. After hurricanes, Louisiana would often distribute pre-packaged government commodities such as farina (I loved that stuff!!!!) that wasn't available at the Piggly Wiggly.
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This is something Biden and Harris campaigned on... "hardening" or "strengthening" the supply chain of critical goods as I recall.
My fear of course, again as I work in healthcare, is that the same mis-management that we saw under Obama and Trump with our Strategic National Stockpile is happening again. Nobody covers this type of thing...it certainly isn't sexy or super interesting--spoilage of supplies you don't hope to ever use--but in a pinch, it's all that matters. No gloves=slower or no patient care.