if you've got 25 of them. Like, how can you tell which ones are real? You know, because you know there's gonna be a certain number of scammers, right? I mean, that's guaranteed. There'll be new people promising things they can't deliver. They get your check, they disappear after the crisis. So it's a real problem. You can't just throw money at people in a crisis because you end up with a lot of bad actors. So what do you do?

So I have this specific problem that I'm trying to solve this morning, and it's this. I've got a credible source, somebody I know who I have strong credibility with. In other words, somebody who's not lying to me, who has a source and can put them on a jet on our back on Friday. So in two days I could have a bunch of N95 masks at an airport in the Northeast. But we can't, because we can't get a check, and I doubt they're going to ship without a check. So the politicians we're looking at it can't make a decision, and it's not their fault. They're not skilled at this. They don't know how to vet a sudden spring-up of a foreign factory with a stranger, no track record. How is a politician gonna make that decision?

So here's what I'm asking for. I will connect you with a person that in my opinion is highly credible, and you can look into it yourself. I need a check for 3.1 million dollars to guarantee a big load of masks lands on Friday and then keeps coming from this source. Now, can I personally guarantee that you would not lose your 3.1 million dollars? I cannot. I cannot. So it's a risky proposition. You could do your own due diligence, find out about the person involved, make sure you get pictures of the factory actually producing them, you know, standing next to the person who shows up in the correspondence. You know, in a few hours you could convince yourself that whether it works or not, you know, there's lots of unknowns, but you could convince yourself that the people are real. There's a real factory. They're really making them. They can really get them here.

If you're a billionaire and you're willing to take some risky short-term thing, because you know this is a short-term sort of a bridge loan, if you will, because once the buyers and the supplier are connected they make their own money, but they'd like to get it on our soil. So for 3.1 million dollars you can put a bunch of masks on American soil from another country, and then it will work out how to get them somewhere. Because if you're the person who's trying to decide who can deliver, you don't have to wonder about the person who just delivered, right? I mean, if the crates are sitting on the tarmac in America, at least you can trust that guy can get you some more masks, right?

So that's the ask. It's a gigantic ask. It's big. If you're not a billionaire, probably don't consider this, because I can't tell you you're gonna get your money back. I can't tell you that. But it's an emergency, and I'll put that out there now. I'm going to try through some private channels as well, and maybe there are other people having similar problems. The problem is going to be this credibility thing, right? So if there's anybody who has a way to shortcut the credibility problem in any way, either maybe you could say you can imagine this: somebody could just guarantee it so you don't put up any money, but you say, "All right, I'll sign it. I'll sign the document today that says if this doesn't get delivered, you know, I'll cover your costs," or something like that. So you could imagine creatively finding a way to shortcut that.

All right, so enough of that. Here's a problem that I just learned about the other day. This was really big. So your big hospitals have a lot of student doctors, and by student doctor I mean somebody who could have graduated in May. And so they're this close to being an act