Posted on 03/21/2020 7:21:38 PM PDT by caww
Distilleries nationwide are changing their operations to produce more hand sanitizer to combat coronavirus, the president announced at the White House on Saturday.
President Donald Trump used Pernod Ricard USA as an example of this development:
This is really an example where we are repurposing alcohol. They went out and repurposed their alcohol production capabilities in Arkansas, Kentucky, and West Virginia to make hand sanitizer, and it’s a big difference.....And they’ve been unbelievable,” Trump said.
Their first delivery will go out on Tuesday,” Trump said. “It’s going to go to various states.”
“They’re going to start I think in New York and they’re going to work their way around,” Trump said. “They’re making a tremendous amount of hand sanitizer.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requires hand sanitizers to be at least 60% alcohol to make them effective....Two distillers located in the nation’s capitol are also stepping up to the plate.
“We’ve got all this high-proof booze around, why not put it to use?” Cotton & Reed co-founder Jordan Cotton said in a DCist article.
“You can’t get [hand sanitizer], so therefore you have to make it. In order to make it, you have to have good, high-proof spirit,” Republic Restoratives founder and CEO Pia Carusone said in the same article. “These sort of crises demand innovation.”
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VERY bad idea.
The liquor is needed more.
Is this a good thing?
Brew more Barcardi 151. Dual purpose.
Bartender - can I have a Purell and Coke please?
Incredible and innovative. Thank you good people.
So I clean my hands and get boozed up at the same time? Awesome.
I’d be way happier to be using less toxic ethanol hand wipes than those containing other varieties of “alcohol”.
Mariner wrote: “VERY bad idea. The liquor is needed more.”
AMEN
Moonshine sanitizer.
But, but what about the absolutely essential, large doses of internally administered ethyl alcohol that are vital for coping with this crisis. I’ve just taken one and am headed for bed.
Jim Beam to the rescue.
Actually, tyhis is asinine. We already have a whole industry based on corn that generates tons of ethanol as a gasoline additive. Stop using it to boost fuel prices and use it for sanitizing. Gasoline is better without it. Are we going to have to pay Schenley prices for hand-sanitizer? It will have to be at least 100 prof to work at all. Other alcohols are better sanitizers.
Alcohol abuse is how I see it.
Is Mila Kunis gonna slither through the brewery telling us how good it is?
140 proof but yeah; basically wipe down your hands and face with moonshine.
Hell, they’ll love this virus in prison.
We have a huge bottle of ever clear (recently purchased) and a huge bottle of aloe (already had on hand)...we’ll make our own hand sanitizer, if it comes down to it.
Hand Hooch
Private Sector rocks!
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