Another way to frame the situation: America is in dire need of surgical masks, and its top manufacturer is more interested in martyring themselves than to help

Another way to frame the situation: America is in dire need of surgical masks, and its top manufacturer is more interested in martyring themselves than to help out. It seems like this is what the Defense Production Act is for? It's not like GM, where invoking the act doesn't seem to speed anything along because they don't make ventilators normally, and have to spend several days retooling their factories. In this case, you have a manufacturer that has excess capacity and is simply refusing to use it. Also, how is this supposed to make people trust American manufacturers any more than the Chinese? The Chinese are actually _making_ masks at full capacity and exporting them... meanwhile, our own homegrown industries are busy navel-gazing and feeling bitter about some past slights.