Business View Magazine | June 2020

13 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2020 many others has been severely and adversely affected during the last several months due to the shut down of the economy, especially here in California where the shut down for many businesses still exists. The economic shutdown was a drastic action that has hurt many people, families, and businesses. Many businesses will not survive and it’s obvious that the poverty resulting from that total shutdown of businesses is having dire consequences. “Several months ago, when the talk from politicians and the media and the medical experts was about shutting down the economy to reduce the spread of the Coronavirus, I began contemplating a simple means of safely avoiding a shutdown. As a physician and surgeon, I knew that the virus could not survive outside a living host and if we were able to dramatically reduce the spread of the virus between people, then the virus would die out. I decided that the best solution for making that happen would be to create an N95 equivalent protective face mask with an effective barrier to all microbiological organisms, including viruses, which would be non-disposable, hand washable and safely reusable and get that type of mask into the hands of not only all the workers but to everyone in this country. That is exactly the type of mask that we have created. “I’m confident that if people simply wore that type of mask in public when in close proximity to others, and combined with the avoidance of touching their faces with unclean hands, that the spread of the virus would be dramatically reduced in a short period of time and the virus would then die out because without a host it cannot survive. I’ve tried to convey that message to our government officials both state and federal but without any success. “At OxyStrap International we have temporarily shifted from the production of our main product, which is the OxyStrap fitness tracker, OPENING L INES