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Seems like we shouldn't have 60% of our IV fluid production on the coast in an area regularly hit by hurricanes.
Asheville is not regularly hit by hurricanes. It has been hit by 3 in 200 years and the previous 2 would not have been bad enough to cause this disruption. When the facility opened it was in large part due to that area having the cleanest water in America. At that time we didn't need manmade filtration: the water from the spring was cleaner then anything humans could make. In fact, that spring still runs clean, but the demand for water has outstripped the output of that spring.
I do agree however that production of crucial supplies should be more decentralized in order to avoid mass shortages from any event.
Yep, major reason they got their ass kicked so very hard. Down here in Florida our building codes are much stronger. Asheville has no reason to mandate buildings that tough for such a crazy outlier.
Wasn't the plant in western NC?
I heard these parasites already asking for fed government bail out to decentralize production.
Like every single time a corpo made a mistake...
Taxpayer has to pay them 🐸
The boeing business model
Privatise gains, socialise losses.