Can’t we do SOMETHING?

In moments of crisis, that’s what we all ask ourselves. Can I get groceries for the neighbor? Call an old friend who needs it? Share my stimulus with those who need it? People are all doing so much to support each other. Especially those who are protecting us.

This began with a friend and a face shield. A physician walks home and shares photos of what her colleagues had for protection in the hospital. A hair tie knotted around a folder divider. A coke bottle cut in two. They are the types of photos that by now we’ve seen over and over again in the news. And like many, we joined in the fight to protect health workers to keep them in the front lines and avoiding infection wherever possible.

Each challenge has led to the next. How do you make a face shield re-usable? How do you make many of them when plastic availability keeps shifting? Can you reverse engineer a CAPR lens? Is it possible for an intubation box to be more flexible? The challenge is high, but the goal is to join wherever possible. We hope to help in the in-betweens, and help larger manufacturing come back online to meet the need.

All of it comes from every day waking up with the same recurring thought: “Can’t we do something?”