One of us made a bad assumption. Mine came from the statement in the original thread
"Am glad they are increasing capacity to manufacture safety equipment. In the beginning someone quoted we had 150K respirators and we needed a million."
If you are correct, and my assumption of what the OP meant was incorrect, I find it hard to believe we have only 150k masks in the country. Maybe he meant "locally". BTW, the other factoid I used to support my assumption is 150k is what I read somewhere about number of ventilators; although the actual number is somewhat of a "national security" secret.