the Coronavirus outbreak thread

[makak]

Originally Posted by benvh

Well this seems to be a big part of the problem:

"By the end of the day, roughly 280 million masks from warehouses around the U.S. had been purchased by foreign buyers and were earmarked to leave the country, according to the broker — and that was in one day."

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Ben

In February, a Chinese company based in Australia basically bought 30 million (which would've been enough for 1 per Australian) N95 masks, as well as 90 tonnes of medical supplies and shipped them back to China. Disgusting that it happened and we allowed it to happen. Those same N95 masks that should be available for $5 each are now being sold for $20 and guess where they're coming from? Makes me ropable