Perhaps folks have brief reminiscences, however there’s one thing we must recall in regards to the coronavirus pandemic.
The masks we wanted, proper then, have been primarily not made in America and arduous to get from elsewhere.
With management from Louisiana’s Ochsner well being and hospital group, employees in Acadiana could also be coping with that shortcoming earlier than the following plague comes our means.
SafeSource Direct has begun operations at its vegetation on the Spanish Path Industrial Park in St. Martin Parish and the previous Weatherford Worldwide facility in Broussard, close to Lafayette.
We applaud this initiative and want it each success.
That can rely not solely the savvy of the three way partnership that Ochsner and native leaders helped to place collectively, but additionally on high-volume purchasers trying to purchase American somewhat than shave a few cents off the worth of gloves or masks.
In a market economic system, people are going to hunt out decrease costs. And by and enormous, free commerce has been an enormous success when it comes to worth and on-time supply of all kinds of merchandise.
However in a world the place world provide chains have been so dramatically disrupted — briefly, however severely — the nation must be in search of everlasting and native sources of non-public protecting gear, as a result of the pandemic uncovered the weaknesses of worldwide sourcing to fight coronavirus’ unfold.