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Re:American mask makers are going out of business by svnt on Saturday March 12, 2022 @11:28PM (#30657961)
I mean you got the naive economics part right. These kinds of contracts are selected based on relationships, not product quality or even business acumen. In your mind the government conducts regular technical product evaluations of every small business that attempts to make masks at scale? That isn’t reality.
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Re:American mask makers are going out of business by dec0dedab0de on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:02AM (#30658131)
They are saying each individual hospital would have to choose a domestic manufacturer for atleast part of their supply. This would cause more domestic manufacturers to start up and compete for each hospitals business. The rule would affect the hospitals directly, not the mask makers.
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