Several months ago, when the Halloween horror characters chibi shirt moreover I love this global pandemic began to grip New York, Jessica Wertz and her partner, Rob Herschenfeld, took action. Wertz, a former bar owner and host of local motorcycle show the Brooklyn Invitational, works in tandem with Herschenfeld, a furniture designer with a background in physics and robotics, at their Brooklyn-based construction company called Lee Wertz Inc. Herschenfeld suggested that they make and distribute PPE, so they first reached out to a friend who is an emergency response coordinator. Their friend put them in touch with Mount Sinai, which desperately needed face shields in local hospitals. After cold-calling plastics companies, Wertz and Herschenfeld sourced all of the materials needed to make face shields. They created a prototype that they took to Mount Sinai, which decided to place an order on the spot for 500,000 shields. Wertz and Herschenfeld then assembled a small army of former colleagues, friends, local tattoo artists, bartenders, servers, and builders to help with production. After amassing a team of 40 plus and pulling many all-nighters, Wertz and Herschenfeld fulfilled the order and have been producing face shields for other local hospitals and medical centers ever since. Their operation is called Shield Our Heroes NYC.
