MYPILLOW SHIFTING 75% OF PRODUCTION TO MAKING FACE MASKS https://t.co/HIFLcV9CGQ pic.twitter.com/HCfWAK3nP3— Matt Couch 🎙 (@RealMattCouch) March 28, 2020
The DC Patriot
written by Matt Couch
Friday March 27, 2020
Minnesota-based company MyPillow is joining the effort to supply health care workers with the protective gear they need amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
CEO Mike Lindell says about 75% of MyPillow’s production will now be making cotton face masks for health care workers. He says about 90% of the company’s sewers will be working on the masks.
“We have capacity to make a lot of things at big rates and we’re going to be going hopefully from 10,000 units a day to 50,000 units a day in a very short period of time,” said Lindell.
Lindell says it took about three weeks to shift production as it was difficult at first to get a supply of elastics needed to create the masks. At this time, he says components are not available to make other types of masks, so his company focused on making the 100% cotton masks. He says MyPillow worked with a coalition from President Donald Trump’s administration to get the proper design.
“Something is better than nothing to get [health care workers] through,” he said.
The masks will be going to hospitals in Minnesota and throughout the country.
“This has been a great unifier of everybody private sector, government, everybody getting involving and uniting as a country and as a people and we show what we can do when the chips are down,” said Lindell.
Masks will not be available to public to purchase.
UPDATE 3/30/20 at 4:11pm: Added info below.
"Our president gave us so much hope. With our great president, we will get through this and get back to a place that is stronger and safer than ever."@realMikeLindell praises @realDonaldTrump while discussing his company's pivot to producing 50,000 face masks per day. pic.twitter.com/spPdH3MBbu— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 30, 2020
CNN is ridiculous.— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) March 30, 2020
As soon as @realMikeLindell took to the podium at the press conference,
They cut coverage.
I guess they don’t care about the fact that he converted 75% of his production to create protective masks.
Horrible network.
CNN cuts away from a man who got a second chance at life, successfully pursued the American Dream and is now voluntarily making 50,000+ masks to fight Wuhan coronavirus. https://t.co/Nph5uGluwL— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) March 30, 2020
Hey goofy My Pillow guy is making 50 thousand masks while this douche adds nothing to the world but his own self satisfied finger sniffing https://t.co/iHrC7Vnk7k— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) March 30, 2020
Except he's turned his company into a hub manufacturing 10,000 masks per day, soon to be 50,000. https://t.co/E9LNWWFOiS— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) March 30, 2020
MSNBC host mocks private sector contributions to coronavirus response. https://t.co/4ZJwhCfujZ— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) March 30, 2020
Bash the President all you want over policy, but why would you bash a person making masks to help doctors and nurses fight the coronavirus— Cameron Gray @ Home til June 10th (@Cameron_Gray) March 30, 2020
What the fuck are you doing instead of being a raging asshole on Twitter? https://t.co/2XwBfHlJvK
Media: WHY WON'T TRUMP GIVE MASKS AND VENTILATORS TO DOCTORS AND NURSES!?— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 30, 2020
Trump: This company is now making masks and ventilators.
CEO: Here's what we're doing to make more masks and ventilators.
MEDIA: OMG WHY ARE TRUMP AND THESE EVIL CEOS TALKING ABOUT MASKS AND VENTILATORS!?
The media (who create nothing) mocking the creator of "My Pillow" who retooled his OWN factories to pump out 50K masks per day is emblematic of everything wrong with leftist elitism today.— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) March 30, 2020
CNN, MSNBC, Daily Beast, and late-night comics are now all out attacking MyPillow as they step up to make tens of thousands of masks for American front-line medical professionals in harm's way— Jack M. Posobiec, IWO (@JackPosobiec) March 30, 2020
They have no shame
So that MyPillow guy is goofy and weird but he also just shut down his factory to make 50,000 masks a day so I’m confused about the vitriol? Actually not confused but I think it’s fucking dumb. Any business owner helping to alleviate a critical shortage is good for fucks sake.— (((Rachel Kaplan))) (@RachelMiniK) March 30, 2020
UPDATE 3/30/20 at 11:03pm: Added tweet below.And once again, that is all the media is focusing on. Because once again they make everything about their political gotchas & weird back & forth games with Trump to see who can own who every day. Actual info is non existent it’s all framed in half truths to make political points.— (((Rachel Kaplan))) (@RachelMiniK) March 30, 2020
UPDATE 3/31/20 at 2:22am: Added info below.They want the My Pillow guy to stop making masks and they want the Malaria/zpack drugs to not save lives.— Andy Swan 🦢 (@AndySwan) March 31, 2020
It’s incredible to watch really.
Everything about his story is anathema to them. Everything.— Vladimir Volosy (@LeninsBarber) March 30, 2020
1. Recovering Drug Addict finds God
2. Turns Life Around
3. Makes a simple, good product
4. Becomes Millionaire
5. In time of great emergency gives back by repurposing his plant to produce Masks.#MyPillow
UPDATE 3/31/20 at 2:22pm: Added tweet below.6. Employs 1500 Americans— Acme Domains (@AcmeDomains) March 30, 2020
7. Doesn't lay them off.
My Pillow is now making highly absorbent pillows so you can cry yourself to sleep after watching this press conference.— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) March 30, 2020
You are an ahole.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) March 31, 2020
UPDATE 4/3/20 at 12:52am: Added tweet below.Man, if only the My Pillow guy recorded a video of him singing “Imagine” in his bathroom instead of retooling his factory to make medical gear.— Henry (@HMSPitts) March 30, 2020
Then he’d be stunning and brave.
The MyPillow guy is helping Americans during A TIME OF NATIONAL CRISIS and you can't stop being an ahole for one moment so you can own Trump.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) April 2, 2020
The MyPillow guy is retooling 75 PERCENT OF HIS BUSINESS to manufacture face masks for our health care professionals on the front lines.
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