New York State launches prison-made hand sanitizer. What is the purpose of New York State?

Warn hand sanitizer merchants not to drive up prices. At the same time, they can also provide part of the hand sanitizer to the market to solve the shortage problem. Allowing prisoners to make their own hand sanitizer can produce a large amount of hand sanitizer at low cost and high efficiency, and these hand sanitizers can be provided to government departments, schools, fire stations and other units, which can also reduce the expenditures of these units on the epidemic. Of course, this is also a means of deterrence, because the United States is a market economy. When the demand for hand sanitizer increases and its supply does not change significantly, these hand sanitizers will increase scarcity, and merchants will have reason to come. Raise prices.

The New York State government vigorously promotes hand sanitizer produced in prisons as one of the state's methods to regulate prices. Because the New York State government has no right to interfere with market prices, they promoted these prisoners' homemade hand sanitizer through the media, which is actually a warning to merchants who deliberately drive up market prices. The general meaning is that we are very aware of the costs and profits of manufacturing these hand sanitizers, so you'd better not raise the price too high, otherwise we will take necessary measures. Of course, such a warning may not have much effect, but it can also make businesses so-called restrained.

Convert the labor of prisoners into usable resources and produce some hand sanitizer that meets standards. The hand sanitizer produced by prisoners in prison will be provided to some government departments, schools, fire departments and other units in New York, which can reduce the expenditure on purchasing hand sanitizer for these units. Under the current severe epidemic situation, these units are more important units, and it is the right thing to give them priority in providing hand sanitizer. This also shows that New York State attaches great importance to the epidemic and prevents the spread of the virus by washing hands frequently.

In general, the flow of these homemade hand sanitizers to the market can reduce the shortage of hand sanitizers to a certain extent. It is also a means for the government to adjust prices, and can also provide necessary hand sanitizers for some key units. Liquid, from these aspects, New York State’s approach is very suitable.