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That’s great now if we could only could produce a couple billion masks

It looks like a typical machine can manufacture a mask 50~100 per minute. For 40 hour work week that is 200k masks per week. So technically we only need 5000 of these machines to produce 1bn a week.

Are the machines made in China?

https://www.kingsing.com/product/561-en.html?gclid=EAIaIQobC...

I'm not sure how that's relevant now that China is largely back to work.

Could probably assume only 90% of that due to typical line down time for maintenance, sku changes, operator error, etc.

The article notes that improvised masks are better than nothing. Do you have a bandanna or a tshirt you could wrap around your head?

This is a perfectly valid question, annoying that it’s getting downvoted so much.

It's all the cabin fever of hn users cooped up in their houses! We're going crazy! We're gonna tear each other apart!

Correct, it even says face covering, not a mask.

It's a pity that's downvoted because thats what some under-equipped health professionals are doing in Europe and US.

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