more than 500,000 respirators are on the way from our South Dakota plant to two of the more critically impacted areas, New York and Seattle with arrivals expected starting tomorrow We are also ready to expedite additional shipments across the country Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, we've ramped up to maximum production levels of N95 respirators and doubled our global output to a rate of more than 1.1 billion per year, or nearly 100 million per month. In the United States we are producing 35 million respirators per month
I wonder if they always made these in the US? Or did they make them in china last year? And the Chinese seized the lot.
35 million ??? That's OVER KILL, US should only need 4Mil worst case, but no way to run 4 Mil ventilators and staff them so WTF!!
No you dont get it. They are pretty good at stopping other people from catching it off you. So everyone in the US wears one when they go out it reduces the risk of spreading it. They say the Japaneese do this. It shows respect for the well being of others.
U.S. government no longer trying to negotiate a low price...gave them the contract and money to mass produce. It would have been too embarrassing to the U.S. government 3M secured contracts with other countries especially considering South Dakota started hiring more employees in early January when they were unsure their own government were interested. Go South Dakota !!! By the way, 3M is global company with existing contracts with many countries and they were working hard to secure contracts with other countries had the U.S. continue to show a lack of interest. Things changed dramatically in the minds of the U.S. government when the WHO declared Covid-19 a Pandemic. wrbtrader
A Ventilator is a big peace of equipment and likely needs on Oxygen supply, your thinking respirator like N95 which is about the only 1 that would work. But I'll repeat this is a bad flu, this isn't the plague, this isn't a human race killer, all calm the fuck down.