Actually, masks are plentiful at the moment. Every contact I have in China or even locally here in California can get me access to face masks in large volume. And I’m not even in the medical supply business.

N95 is a bit harder to come by, although one of my buddy can also get it in volume through a friend who’s in the medical supply business.

But most of the source who has reached out to me has the standard 3 layer masks that looks very similar to the single use masks the hospital staff uses.

Anyway, I feel this is really not a wartime strategic type of supply. Ventilators maybe. I think the western culture of dislike for face masks really slowed the adaption of using masks in times of major contagious outbreaks.

We had the similar situation when SARS first came out. All the Asian countries adapted the mask use quickly.

Nobody in the states I knew were using them.

We need to push this exercise and make it an integral part of the defense against covid19.

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