...Facemask money laundering scheme?
This is about an order for buying 300M N95 certified masks -- Preshipping cost put the mask at around $3 each.
Do I think it would've made more sense to setup some factories in California to do this and put some people to work who need it? Yes. As these are all disposable masks that are going to be thrown out anyway, probably going to need a lot more then 300M in the coming year or year and a half b/c the state of California 40m people.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-06/gavin-newsom-releases-california-coronavirus-mask-contractAre there a lot of questions regarding this contract, the price, delivery issues and so on? Yes. Does this point to some crazy money laundering Chinese scheme -- No.
yep its about the purchase of masks. and yea $3 seems steep. and so the nutty conspiracy gang want to make it sound like some of that is being syphoned off elsewhere
(idiots)
but as for the 150m initial shipment masks.
they are not going to be handed out to all 40m californian citizens. they are being handed to healthcare providers and 'frontline staff'
i know badecker is trying to go full on freeman script. about how if a government want you to do something. badecker should charge for his time. but that will never work. and more laughably the price figure he mentions for his time($250k) shows he just has no clue.
but in business, a business can actually pricetag real costs of following new orders. by way of asking the government to provide them with masks at government cost if the government wishes them to be worn
this is why governments lack of funds/lack of supply. tell citizens/normal people that there is a 'free' option. by making their own face covering or just staying at a distance. this then absolves them of being forced into paying for masks for everyone.
thus if they get sick by getting too close. its not anyones fault but the person that go too close.
its like driving licences. by saying people can just get taxi/bus/train. or walk. then makes the laws of needing a driving licence to be on the roads owned by government. absolves the government of having to internally fund driving licences and makes them not accountable to pay people to get one.
simply because people have chosen they want a driving licence
same with liquer licence.. government says theres an option a business can just sell other beverages. then its the peoples choice. which then becomes them paying for their choice.