Domestic mask production capabilities cost $5 million to build, Armbrust says
“I'm pretty sure for like five million dollars, you could make the capability of making that many masks.”
Pre-pandemic surgical masks were mostly made by hand globally
“And I found that mostly masks were being made manually one at a time by hand at the time.”
Armbrust's Austin facility eventually scaled to produce one million masks daily
“We actually eventually were able to produce a million masks a day in that facility.”
Sacks: Masks are the equivalent of red MAGA hats for Democrats
“This is the problem is that the mask has become it's the equivalent of the red MAGA hat for team blue.”
Sacks calls wearing masks after vaccination the blue equivalent of MAGA hats
“Wearing a mask after you're vaccinated is now, it's like the blue equivalent of the red MAGA hat, where it's completely performative to say, hey, I'm on team blue. You know, even though, like, scientifically, it's meaningless.”
David Sacks: The WHO initially advised against wearing masks during COVID-19
“Remember that at the time that I was saying that we should wear masks, the WHO was saying we shouldn't.”
Maheshwari: India will likely face a glut of protective masks within weeks
“It's very likely that we may like China, we may have a glut of masks in, in a few weeks from now.”
Sacks: Public health officials withheld mask guidance fearing supply shortages
“I mean, I do think that they thought about will we create a run on mass? Well, you know, that, that, that they don't want to tell us the truth because they're afraid of some of the consequences of telling us the truth.”