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by epicureanideal 2283 days ago
But it’s a great time to recover initial startup cost in starting a sanitizer factory...
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The famously nimble NY Department of Corrections did so in like a week. So I'm guessing the startup costs are not too onerous.

https://qz.com/1815496/ny-forces-prisoners-to-make-hand-sani...

The headline is funny...

"Incarcerated people tasked to make hand sanitizer to fight coronavirus are banned from using it themselves"

I mean, it's basically 120 proof ethyl alcohol. Of course they aren't allowed to have it. I'm very sympathetic to better prison conditions, but soap should be fine.