Hey, in an ideal world, Mike Lindell could be my hero - a nice come-back story, self-made millionaire, who's looking to help his people in a crisis. At least, that's the story repubs will try to sell the voters.
But one cannot have the whole picture of what is going on here without knowing that Lindell campaigned for Trump, his company My Pillow landed on tough times namely during the Trump administration and now he is getting a free nation-wide commercial from Trump.
And once you factor in Trump pushing Lindell to run for governor of Minnesota, and quite likely looking to exploit the whole mask-making, American hero shtick for political purposes, you realize there are so many strings attached and so many special-interest serving agendas going on in the background, it's tragically comic.
As for those masks, republican propaganda will try to make it look like Lindell, like a true American hero, will be making them for free. In reality, this will be either a government-subsidized program (best-case scenario) or My Pillow will be allowed to sell them directly to the highest-bidding state/governor, as per the principles of a true free-market economy.
The point being, when all is said and done, Lindell won't be losing money, on the contrary, he will end up making quite a few dollars.
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I am afraid we passed that threshold a long time ago, just in the US alone.
The official stats that we see are severely suppressed by the lack of widely available tests, as well as lack of tests that actually work.