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That’s great now if we could only could produce a couple billion masks
by rdtwo 7y ago
That’s great now if we could only could produce a couple billion masks
- catalogia 7y agoThe article notes that improvised masks are better than nothing. Do you have a bandanna or a tshirt you could wrap around your head?
- pen2l 7y agoThis is a perfectly valid question, annoying that it’s getting downvoted so much.
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoIt's all the cabin fever of hn users cooped up in their houses! We're going crazy! We're gonna tear each other apart!
- hanniabu 7y agoCorrect, it even says face covering, not a mask.
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- tangue 7y agoIt's a pity that's downvoted because thats what some under-equipped health professionals are doing in Europe and US.
- thkim 7y agoIt looks like a typical machine can manufacture a mask 50~100 per minute. For 40 hour work week that is 200k masks per week. So technically we only need 5000 of these machines to produce 1bn a week.
- koolba 7y agoAre the machines made in China?
- thkim 7y agohttps://www.kingsing.com/product/561-en.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6LTNmOnD6AIV06uWCh3RGgypEAAYAyAAEgKZm_D_BwE https://www.kingsing.com/product/561-en.html?gclid=EAIaIQobC...
- koheripbal 7y agoI'm not sure how that's relevant now that China is largely back to work.
- hanniabu 7y agoCould probably assume only 90% of that due to typical line down time for maintenance, sku changes, operator error, etc.