I want to share more positive news on our constant effort to secure protective gear for our frontline workers: We have another airlift of PPE arriving early tomorrow morning in Illinois. That follows our first flight that landed earlier this week.
These millions of masks and gloves will be taken to our state warehouse where inventory and performance quality checks are done, before we ship them out to keep our first responders and health care professionals protected as they work to keep us safe.
If it strikes you as atypical that, in the midst of a national emergency, a state is directly airlifting supplies from another country — well, you'd be right.
But that’s the landscape we’re operating in, competing with other states, countries & even our own federal government.
But that’s the landscape we’re operating in, competing with other states, countries & even our own federal government.
If an airlift is what it takes to bring the PPE to protect our nurses, firefighters, police officers and other essential workers, then it’s an airlift we’ll use — without hesitation.
