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Ok, this just occurred to me...What is one of the biggest needs right now?
N95 masks and other PPE for medical personal.
But are we being creative in how to solve this problem? Why do they need to be disposable in the first place, could we get 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20 uses out of a single mask?
Can we come up with a device for hospitals that is easy to build and get online quickly.
My initial thoughts
1) UV light?
2) Vaporized ethanol (alcohol sterilization)?
3) Moderate heat
Obviously a combination of several of these.
There are some questions to be answered. First, does it impact he integrity of the mask to sterilize it? do the masks stop being effective in addition to just becoming contaminate?
All important questions, but drastic times comes up for drastic solutions.
Just as an FYI, one of my China suppliers told me that they can supply me masks. I mentioned to this to a few friends who also import and they said that their China suppliers also told them the same thing.
My guess is that China factories made a ton of masks in the last 2 months. And now they are oversupplied over there and the virus is on the decline.
So I expect that the US market will get flooded with masks in about a month. If me and 2 of my friends got mask offers, it means that there are probably thousands of other importers that received the same offers and probably hundreds that placed orders.
Give them a month to make them and a week to airship them. So let's say around end of April, there will be plenty of masks here.