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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by x0x0 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:58AM (#22624625)
Isn't it stunning that even three months ago, no one in the federal disaster preparation programs thought about supply chains for masks?

I simply don't know how to process the news that we both waste $1 trillion dollars per year on our military, and we haven't built a $5m (or hell, $50m) machine that can allow us to totally source N95 masks from the raw materials up. Does Walmart seriously think more deeply about supply chains than our disaster prep and military?

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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by ken on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:00AM (#22627002)
Commerce sees results at the end of the quarter. Disaster prep sees results years later or maybe never.
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Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies by hn23 on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:10PM (#22642173)
So this is the main problem if all is driven by optimizing to a single value.
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