Why are there no masks?

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br14

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According to a US news report today, while the Chinese Communist Party was telling the world Covid-19 did not spread person to person, they were busy buying up every mask they could lay their hands on. Apparently according to their own customs data they imported 2.2 billion masks in January alone. I haven't been able to find any supporting stories but it is fresh.

If true, they more than likely were buying up other protective equipment so it explains why the rest of the world is having a hard time sourcing materials.
 
Br14 so do you think that they were buying up these masks just to deprive the rest of the world ??

Seems to me that they were doing what all governments should have been doing. We were still supplying inadequate PPE. Hancock had the gall to say how he changed the rules on what PPE we class as standard. "On Thursday, the government upgraded the standards of PPE that frontline doctors and nurses are expected to wear from aprons to gowns." So for weeks now we have been supplying substandard kit if we were supplying any at all.

Those 2.2 billion face masks don't even equate to two for every person in China and as you will have seen everyone wears them. So for evil I think you meant sensible.
 
br14 said:
According to a US news report today, while the Chinese Communist Party was telling the world Covid-19 did not spread person to person, they were busy buying up every mask they could lay their hands on. Apparently according to their own customs data they imported 2.2 billion masks in January alone. I haven't been able to find any supporting stories but it is fresh.

If true, they more than likely were buying up other protective equipment so it explains why the rest of the world is having a hard time sourcing materials.
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That may be true, but without evidence that they were deliberately buying them in order to keep them from the rest of the world it's just a theory. It suits Trumps agenda as his constant references to the Chinese virus show. As they were the source of the outbreak (probably) then you could argue that they bought adequate supplies knowing that they would need all they could get given the size of their population.

The US have hardly been the models decency in all this with several reports from France, Germany and other countries saying that shipments of masks ordered by them have been 'hijacked' by americans offering triple the price. There is no proof that these were US government agents or private speculators, so just another theory.
 
This was on the BBC last week.
A tool hire store in Suffolk was selling hand sanitiser for £30 a bottle, so the BBC went and asked him. why. The answer was because his supplier was charging him only slightly less.
So the BBC spoke to the supplier who was more than happy to talk. Apparently hand gel is 70% alcohol, if it isn't it won't work. He was struggling to get his hands on alcohol (industrial). He normally paid £700 a tonne, he had just recently been offered a tonne for £20 000, which he declined. He had since managed to get hold of some for only 2.5 times his normal price.

In a recent speech Trump covertly threatened an Americam manufacturer. It turned out that the company was 3M America's biggest producer of protective masks. They were still exporting to other counties, fullfilling contracts. You can bet your life they are not exporting anywhere now.

Procurement at times like these will be proving quite difficult I would imagine. Except for the experts on FMTTM of course.
 
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Is anyone else surprised that masks and the wearing of them isn’t a bigger issue in this country has been across Europe and in other countries around the world.
 
My brother in Hong Kong asked me back a couple of months ago how many face masks I had. Everyone over there had hundreds in their houses. They weren't allowed out without them and had to keep using fresh ones. I scoffed at the time but maybe I was wrong. I did notice that antibacterial hand wash was already missing from shelves from early this year. Clearly some people were already stockpiling in anticipation.
 
The federal government is apparently also outbidding states.

You even have senators guarding their briefings for fear of any criticism of the POTUS will harm the efforts to get necessary supplies.

Trump has also mentioned in his briefings, those states who have shown a suitable degree of gratitude. It’s quite astounding, as if federal assets are his own private stash and he should be held in awe for sharing.

The man child is a freak. He really is thick.
 
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My brother in Hong Kong asked me back a couple of months ago how many face masks I had. Everyone over there had hundreds in their houses. They weren't allowed out without them and had to keep using fresh ones. I scoffed at the time but maybe I was wrong. I did notice that antibacterial hand wash was already missing from shelves from early this year. Clearly some people were already stockpiling in anticipation.
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Where people stock piling or was stock not being replaced as usual due to a global shortage?
 
China was the source of the outbreak, China has a large population and nobody knew what was going to be the impact of the infection, China react first and buy the available equipment they think they may need, most of the PPE we are importing is now coming from China as their need has receded.

Not sure when the masks were imported and how many were imported after they went public on January 20th with human to human transmission.

Chinese Government made massive mistakes which could have massively reduced the spread of Covid-19 but I don’t think the import of masks is as underhand and as nefarious as the report in the OP is claiming, there’s a timeline that fits and surely someone somewhere would have asked the question before now of why are so many of our exports suddenly going to China, it’s patterns like these that Government agencies and secret services respond to, its not all Aston Martin’s and dry martinis.
 
Intelligence was available on 3 January but it took until 18 January to get Trump's ear . . . and he wasn't very interested. The timeline of Trump's inaction carried on from there.

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