alt Hacker NewsAsking this question only a handful of years after a global pandemic...
If the next pandemic is 50% deadly, not being able to make gloves is surely the canary in the coal mine proving we wouldn't be able to make any other PPE.
And no country can rely on another if it's do or die. Other blocs will keep to themselves.
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JumpCrisscross • today at 11:14 AM
And in the midst of a start-stop petrochemical supply crisis.
jeffrallen • today at 10:38 AM
Those who do not learn from history... probably don't make gloves.
raverbashing • today at 10:08 AM
It's amazing how much those spreadsheet heads know nothing about how the actual world works
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As pointed out earlier, there is also rotation of a stockpile of gloves instead of manufacturing which reduces costs and solves the same issues.
Even things made in America were in short supply during the pandemic because workers were hard to come by as well. A factory isn’t any good if half the people to run it are sick, but it doesn’t take special training to hand out boxes of gloves.