Peter Navarro –– quoted in this story pretending Prestige Ameritech was the problem –– wrote multiple memos in Jan/Feb about the urgent need to onshore & ramp up domestic N95 mask production.
he was getting millions of requests from everyone *but* the US gov't. he only sold domestically, but people were buying his masks & shipping them overseas.
cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmFW5KXkAEbnE-.png)
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmFYJLWkAEcLhj.jpg)
by late March, Jared & his volunteer squad were finally on it. they gave a slew of no-bid contracts to shady companies for masks at 10X the cost Bowen would've charged.
here's a FEBRUARY memo from Peter Navarro about the urgency of ramping up domestic production of remdesivir.
3 months later, the WH is in chaos trying to manage that shortage:
politico.com/news/2020/05/0…
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmLL8AXYAAYTDk.jpg)
they're quite illuminating.
context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/def….