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Midnightwalk

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5. Another corrupt scheme

Wed May 20, 2020, 12:20 PM

May 2020

60 million for 60 machines

Instead of 60 million masks at the normal price of $1 per.

Each machine has to clean 1 million masks

I guess there would be one machine per state with some spares?

With the cost now over 400 million each machine would have to clean more than 6 million masks.

The logistical nightmare of shipping masks to a centralized cleaning facility boggles the mind.

Did I screw up the arithmetic? That money would have been better spent ramping up production.

The only way this makes sense is to give money to a donor

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