Open Source Protective Visor by MagnoliaTitanium

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COVID-19 has brought us a challenge of unprecedented magnitude. Our first responders are running out of supplies, and the supply chain is disrupted due to the pandemic. The news media reports about the supply chain are alarming. "The US Food and Drug Administration has contacted dozens of medical device manufacturers whose facilities in China may be at risk of creating shortages in the supply chain -- and indeed, some facilities have already been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak," CNN reports. Accounts of medical personnel at hospitals in Portland, Seattle, and Alaska are frightening and sad. For instance: "My husband is a paramedic in a local Portland hospital, their team is caring for COVID-19 patients with extremely limited resources. Each time he reuses a face shield or N95 mask, he's putting his life and his patients at risk. We're so scared for him. Please help," "Know that you are helping one pretty scared pregnant ER doctor in Alaska. I'll keep going to work - it's my honor - but it's not great that we aren't protected from this disease that is killing healthcare workers at a far higher rate than the community." Any community energy, creativity, and ingenuity directed against this horrible disease is very much appreciated by the medical community who are battling on the front lines. What are we doing about it? At Magnolia Titanium Open Source 3D Maker Studio, we're manufacturing face shields and creating other protective gear to aid in closing the huge gap for our medical community. We're using this model created by Jonathan Wong to print the face shields: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/minimal-face-shield-for-letter-sized-plastic-w-cad-files#information. We're now working to improve the model and change the ends so that the elastic stays in place without having to open holes to it. We're using deprecated models from sources like 3Dverkstan Face Shield Modified (https://www.youmagine.com/designs/3dverkstan-face-shield-modified) and Protective Visor by 3Dverkstan (https://www.youmagine.com/designs/protective-visor-by-3dverkstan/?fbclid=IwAR0cih428NTIZUSeBYLqmUU1aKDcFeW4l_GyuJR8IPeVeOISh451Zdaf9_Q).