Not to mention when he made this decision he was not getting any press for doing so.
This is an important point because retooling a factory to change the product you make is an incredible cost.
Now that increase in costs would be substantial regardless to which product he switched manufacturing, but to switch to medical equipment probably doubled whatever normal retooling costs they'd ever incur. Making medical-grade, sterile, masks that pass the stringent quality control standards required? Get out of here, that is a herculean task. Go ask GM how easy it is to ramp up the supply chain necessary to make ventilators for the medical industry.
He must have a really good group working for him to feel like he can pull this off. But if he is manufacturing in the USA now, he already values his people and their labor, I wouldn't doubt he's got an actual team that works together. That is rare and an incredible competitive advantage, but I digress.
The reason the point about no press when he made this decision is so important is he had no reason to believe the sales of his pillows after this was over would be enough to keep his business afloat.
I don't know how many pillows he would have had to sell to offset the costs of retooling for masks but I bet it is a pretty crazy number.
I'll also bet that almost everyone in the country will likely overestimate how much money this man will make from this decision now that he is popular.
But what is so astonishing to me is this man, who already had successfully marketed several successful products, made this decision to start making masks at his factory and it sounds to me like he didn't care if it ended up destroying his business as long as they were able to produce the masks and save people's lives.
Now I can't prove this, and there will be cynics that say he did this for the publicity all along and the fix was in and this guy and Trump were roommates at the Russian bathhouse prostitute abuse circus, but I can tell you as someone that reads financial statements all the time and is rarely surprised by the decisions business' make, what this guy did is incredible and as far as I know unprecedented by anyone living today.
This Patriot just put his business and life's work on the line for the country, voluntarily, because we needed it. We will never have enough men like him.
Just one thing, those masks are not sterile. The gloves they use at hospitals are also not sterile. They do have sterile gloves however for certain situations.
But my point stands, retooling to make sanitized goods, while maybe not as expensive as a sterile production environment, is certainly more expensive than producing goods that do not require such strident standards.
A large percentage of it.
Not to mention when he made this decision he was not getting any press for doing so.
This is an important point because retooling a factory to change the product you make is an incredible cost.
Now that increase in costs would be substantial regardless to which product he switched manufacturing, but to switch to medical equipment probably doubled whatever normal retooling costs they'd ever incur. Making medical-grade, sterile, masks that pass the stringent quality control standards required? Get out of here, that is a herculean task. Go ask GM how easy it is to ramp up the supply chain necessary to make ventilators for the medical industry.
He must have a really good group working for him to feel like he can pull this off. But if he is manufacturing in the USA now, he already values his people and their labor, I wouldn't doubt he's got an actual team that works together. That is rare and an incredible competitive advantage, but I digress.
The reason the point about no press when he made this decision is so important is he had no reason to believe the sales of his pillows after this was over would be enough to keep his business afloat.
I don't know how many pillows he would have had to sell to offset the costs of retooling for masks but I bet it is a pretty crazy number.
I'll also bet that almost everyone in the country will likely overestimate how much money this man will make from this decision now that he is popular.
But what is so astonishing to me is this man, who already had successfully marketed several successful products, made this decision to start making masks at his factory and it sounds to me like he didn't care if it ended up destroying his business as long as they were able to produce the masks and save people's lives.
Now I can't prove this, and there will be cynics that say he did this for the publicity all along and the fix was in and this guy and Trump were roommates at the Russian bathhouse prostitute abuse circus, but I can tell you as someone that reads financial statements all the time and is rarely surprised by the decisions business' make, what this guy did is incredible and as far as I know unprecedented by anyone living today.
This Patriot just put his business and life's work on the line for the country, voluntarily, because we needed it. We will never have enough men like him.
Just one thing, those masks are not sterile. The gloves they use at hospitals are also not sterile. They do have sterile gloves however for certain situations.
Sorry, I meant sanitized I guess, not sterile.
But my point stands, retooling to make sanitized goods, while maybe not as expensive as a sterile production environment, is certainly more expensive than producing goods that do not require such strident standards.
75%
Any actual journalist would have known Mike is making masks. This guy is AOC-level dumb.