If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again

Re:If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is wo... by bretthoerner on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:14AM (#22793864)

> The root of the problem is supply, so stop the government intervention and you pay more money for the same problems.

The company in the article is closed on nights and weekends. Don't you think there's a price at which they'd stay open, thus increasing supply?

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Re:If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is wo... by RhodesianHunter on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:35AM (#22794070)

You literally cannot scale up the production of the underlying fabric that goes into N95 masks quickly. These assembly lines take 6 months to set up.

There is no price at which these masks can be sold which will meaningfully impact supply before Covid 19 burns itself out.

Such price increases are honestly more likely to incentivize people digging their P100 masks out of their garages and workshops and donating those.

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Re:If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is wo... by ric2b on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @06:53AM (#22802072)

They're closed on weekends and nights. The number of machines isn't what's keeping their production capacity down.

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Re:If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is wo... by DuskStar on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:49PM (#22797113)

And this factory makes surgical masks, not N95s. The material is not a bottleneck as far as I'm aware.

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