The Amazon Prime. Washington Post ran a feel good coronavirus story the other day. It's about a factory in Kenya that was transformed overnight for making clothes to making thirty thousand face masks a day. One of them had a hole in the nose for Joe Biden to wear. Kenyan government officials believe that they're gonna need about fifty million masks when the virus peaks there. Unfortunately, the country doesn't
have facilities to manufacture medical equipment. Worse, they get outbid by larger nations that have more money and more leverage for purchases. Until now, Kenya has been relying on the chi coms to supply their medical device needs necessities, forcing a change, though. The governor of this small county in Kenya concluded that they import everything and they produce nothing despite having plenty of resources at their disposal. So in one week they retrain four hundred factory workers to make
n ninety five masks. And there's a lesson here for generations. The US led the world and manufacturing, including manufacturing medical devices. Then Obamacare came along, and one of the ways Obama decided to pay for that monstrosity was with big taxes on medical devices. Predictably, a lot of that industry picked up and moved its manufacturing over to China, the home a cheap labor. Now the whole world has learned, but relying on China for basic health care necessities that's not
so smart. It's time for a change in America as well, and we can do it.