You gotta love the the extremes that I always hear about only from either the USA or China. I know that most of Europe will never have a self made billionaire making 250k n95 masks in a matter of days, but then again we wont have so many people dieing or going completely broke from a few visits to the hospital which is going to be very common with coronavirus. I considered taking a FAANG job in SV which I guess helps avoid most of the issues everyone has with the USA but I cannot imagine being middle class with all the issues we keep hearing about like hospital bills, guns and shootings, homelessness, prisons, civil forfeiture etc.
"The masks include the lightweight ones that people like to wear in the hope of protection against coronavirus"<p>Love the subtle way of suggesting the effectiveness of those.
According to npr there is a shortage of melt blown fabric to make the masks, and it takes six months to build the machine to produce such product. I'm skeptical of all these places claiming to produce masks, that they are actually the quality and performance they claim.<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/814929294/covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...</a>
If there's one good thing that comes out of this crisis, it will be that the medical infrastructure will vastly be more capable of handling future outbreaks.
I just realized Musk is probably doing this, in part, to keep the factories operational and seek favor with the political powers that be. I have nothing wrong with that, per se, I just find it interesting.
I hope he doesn't force people back to work at his factories until they have the masks they need to paint cars etc. that he is now giving away. He will have a shortage as well.