What distributors do, I don’t know. But based on one interview with someone who apparently was asleep at the switch and now is complaining that he couldn’t himself jump the queue to get the supplies that he should have had in hand long before now, I remain unconvinced. Sounds like some American capitalists were doing the same thing to their fellow countrymen that people on this board are pissed off at China for. Ironic, isn’t it?
3M in the USA, though its two plants there that produce the N95 masks, have contracts to supply 3M Canada, which in turn has contracts to supply Canadian governments (health care up here is government run). And I can guarantee you that Canadian governments haven’t come with bribes - people have gone to jail up here for that. I cannot speak for other countries.
The interview turned me off right from the beginning when the anchor said “i want you to say what you told me before”, which is code for “do it just the way we rehearsed it”. It’s just not journalism. Was there an interview with a representative of 3M? Oh wait, yes there was...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/business...from-the-truth
Even from your favourite source. :-)
Look, I have no beef against you, or the US. But the administration’s knee-jerk response has caused an uproar here. Detroit, which is poised to be the next centre for the outbreak, relies on Canadian nurses and doctors who cross the boarder every day. And Michigan will soon call for help the same way that New York did. Normally, Canada would be the first to respond. I think that you know that. But there is a cry here to send those people to Toronto and ignore what might be a humanitarian disaster right next door. Nobody really wants to see that.