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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by gruez on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:45PM (#22730900)
Sanitizers are made with alcohol, which are presumably in low supply. It doesn't take that much labor to actually make the sanitizer. All you need to to is mix two ingredients together and bottle it.
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by pbhjpbhj on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:13PM (#22731245)
Many places have facilities to make the alcohol, in UK at least the barrier seems to be legislative -- companies need licenses for stills to make the requisite alcohol (they're licensed for other alcohol production), and those licenses aren't available.
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by omegaworks on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:40PM (#22731500)
> Sanitizers are made with alcohol, which are presumably in low supply.

Amazon has the global logistical supply chain to make it happen. Bezos can send an email and have a grain-to-alcohol pipeline in the works by the end of the week.

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