Millionaire Willie Wilson Offers to Donate Thousands of Masks to Chicago's First-responders.

[ancianita]

Good news from anywhere is some relief.

Millionaire businessman Willie Wilson offered Thursday to donate 10,000 medical masks and 1,000 more advanced “N-95” masks to the Chicago Police and Fire Departments to protect first-responders on the front lines of the city’s war against the coronavirus.

On Thursday, he offered to put the medical supply business that is a major source of his personal fortune to work for a Chicago Fire Department that already has seen a paramedic and an assistant deputy chief paramedic testing positive for the coronavirus.

In addition to the medical masks, Wilson said he has another shipment of 5,000 N-95 masks coming in next week. After delivering 4,000 of those stronger masks to his customers, he’s planning to donate the rest to the Chicago Fire Department.

N-95 masks have been in high demand during the pandemic because they filter out small particles from the air. They have long been used by construction workers, including painters, sanders and drywall contractors.

Earlier this week, Vice President Mike Pence appealed to construction companies to donate their inventory of N-95 masks to local hospitals and stop ordering new masks to ease a shortage of protective equipment at hospitals bracing for an avalanche of coronavirus patients.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/3/19/21187278/millionaire-businessman-willie-wilson-donate-masks-chicagos-first-responders-coronavirus-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR3VDlNULClrefjjqspNqjqRi95yFionR2U2q_gqvHPz71k8tW02KN2LWRo

[Leghorn21]

1. Yesyesyesyesyes

YES

Okay, not that Willie Nelson, the less musical Willie Nelson, apparently!!

Oh, wait, Willie WILSON, got it!

nevertheless, FANTASTIC NEWS



Willie Wilson

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I keep wondering where all the billionaires, like Bezos and Cuban, are.

Why aren't these 'patriots' donating $millions?

[OhioChick]

3. Same here

I heard something a few weeks back that Bezos was hiding in his bunker, wouldn't surprise me.

Gates sort of surprises me since he gave China $$$$ to help them. I would've thought the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would've stepped up to the plate to help out hospital staff, fire, police, paramedics, etc.

[ancianita]

5. I've seen some videos that show they are. In Africa. Not sure about here.

[Nailzberg]

4. The Koch empire includes a bunch of paper and cleaning products. They must love this.

[ancianita]

6. Me, too. Wilson does make me wonder which billionaires value humanity and have a moral compass.

[lunasun]

7. Citadel in Chicago ken griffins group donating . He's a Republican but who cares right now -helping

Just yesterday the hedge fund and securities firms founded by Ken Griffin are donating $2.5 million for public schools and food insecurity relief efforts in Chicago as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic take hold. The donations will help make meals available at more than 500 temporary school food distribution sites for 355,000 students.

In early February, Citadel and Citadel Securities donated $7.5 million to help contain the virus in China.

Cubs’ Jason Heyward is donating 200000 to Chicago relief efforts
His teammate Anthony Rizzo and Hall of Fame pitcher Fergie Jenkins via Cameo — are raising money to those impacted by coronavirus

Jerry Reinsdorf: The owner of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the MLB’s Chicago White Sox is teaming up with Rocky Wirtz, owner of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, to pay the United Center’s 1,200 game-day employees through the remainder of the originally scheduled season. That’s important too with all the cancelled game days here

There may be more I haven’t heard about but good to know some wealthy in Chicago are helping out the town and worldwide
including Willie Wilson !