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Re:In Pursuit of PPE by xienze on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:35PM (#22903629)
> And no guarantees on cheap chinese goods flooding the market and taking all your customers in a few months.

You might could fix that with strong tariffs. There was a guy recently, can’t remember his name, who was very much in favor of domestic manufacturing and tariffs against China. Seemed to catch a lot of flak for those policies! Wish I could remember who that was...

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Re:In Pursuit of PPE by mindslight on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:38PM (#22904030)
Bingo. It's amazing, this could have been the shining moment for his platform. Give domestic mask manufacturers immediate long-term federal contracts and a promise of significant tariffs when the dust settles. Instead he denied the problem even existed, encouraged people to get infected, and delayed our response by six weeks.
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