kate congerVerifizierter Account

why do Apple and Facebook have so many masks?https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1242576118277963776 …

I have a lot of criticisms of FB (and probably Apple), but this supply doesn't seem unusual for gargantuan institutions. When the fire(s) happened here, there were *weeks* of dangerous air conditions, particularly if immunocompromised. A month of smoke * a lot of employees.

When I worked at Google, they actually have out earthquake preparedness kits in California every other year or so, and iirc those contained masks. The real question is not about how many they *had*, it's more: what % of their total supply has been donated.

Another specific story: I visited Beijing on a work trip, and when I got there help desk dropped off a box of what, 20 masks? "It's dangerous to go alone, take these" (Ok, maybe not that wording). AQI was > 200 though, so it made sense.