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LiberalArkie

(15,732 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 09:56 AM Apr 2020

If you imagine that a local business making surgical face masks is working 24/7, guess again

When the history of the coronavirus epoch is written, The Watchdog hopes historians don’t neglect to mention Prestige Ameritech and its owner, Mike Bowen. The North Richland Hills company is America’s No. 1 maker of hospital surgical masks.

During this crisis, you’d think the company would be pushing forward on all cylinders, working 24/7 to manufacture the one commodity that Americans and the rest of the world want so badly.

You’d be wrong.

The company is only operating weekday shifts. You drive by nights and weekends and the employee parking lot is empty.

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/04/03/if-you-imagine-that-a-local-business-making-surgical-face-masks-is-working-247-guess-again/?utm_source=digg


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If you imagine that a local business making surgical face masks is working 24/7, guess again (Original Post) LiberalArkie Apr 2020 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author lark Apr 2020 #1
That is not at all what the article says at all.. LiberalArkie Apr 2020 #2
Cheap chinese crap undercuts Made in america....even life saving products like PPE. jmg257 Apr 2020 #3
Can't say I blame him. Phoenix61 Apr 2020 #4

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jmg257

(11,996 posts)
3. Cheap chinese crap undercuts Made in america....even life saving products like PPE.
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 10:20 AM
Apr 2020

This country is a joke.

$$ $$

Phoenix61

(17,023 posts)
4. Can't say I blame him.
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 10:25 AM
Apr 2020

Seems like the perfect company to have a contract with the military or the National Stockpile. Something steady enough so he can ramp up when needed. How many people quit a job to go work for him only to be laid off when things “went back to normal?”

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