Zoren, you will be getting more masks in your hospital soon. 3M makes 1 million N95 masks a week in the USA.

But your reproduction method is less fun!

It seems that the first symptom of Covid 19 isn’t coughing, fever, or shortness of breath. It’s stupidity. My theory is that it come from people “working from home” in the pyjamas. Don’t know about you, but I’ve seen people do some really dumb things in the last couple of weeks!

https://youtu.be/jGTcw-b1crc


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I would like to taste 6 orders of yoda dumplings and one mudslide baba tea!

Day after they locked down the state. I see more people out and about then before. :shakes head:

They closed the local mall. Now all the mall walkers are at my store walking around. The bad thing is the shoplifters are mixed in with them. :mad:

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LMFAO

Time to bring your BB gun and mark their aszzes red!

I have to say, the more I see these, the more that i realize how "Fox News" is the ultimate oxymoron.

The USA is not only soaking up all global supply, but also using your defence procurement act to keep domestic production in the country. I don't blame you for the latter especially, although those plants were set up by companies to efficiently supply all of the Americas. By doing so, you are leaving your poor northern cousins in the lurch. But we'll survive. Just don't count on getting maple syrup and back bacon shipments from us any time soon!

In reality, 3M initiated a surge in PPE production back in January at the start of the epidemic in all of its plants worldwide. Bloomberg ran a story on this months ago. This was a plan devised after the SARS outbreak in 2003. They expanded capacity of N95 masks by bringing online all equipment including all idled lines and switch-overs where possible. Chinese plants were slow to come online because of their epidemic and also Lunar New Year, but others hit their marks quickly. That was intended to meet increased global demand. The two US production facilities normally make a combined 35 million masks a month. It is set to hit 50 million in the next few months. Your supply chain would be more than enough in most situations. Unless you want the government to invest in production facilities, you cannot have private enterprise at the ready to react to a once in a generation emergency of global scale! So, when an official who failed at his job by not having enough stocks available, criticizes a company that is doing what companies do, he's just trying to save his own arse!

Interesting.

I’m not sure whether it was the UK government funding it or not, but the Ex Nortel plant in Harlow Essex (incidentally where they invented fiber optics for data communications) had all their fiber manufacturing facilities mothballed in the event of an emergency so some production facilities of private enterprises have in the past been mothballed for this type of scenario


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Boy, did you miss the point.

No I didn’t

Just tired of all the political point scoring that politicians are doing instead of banding together and fighting this thing.

We could say Trump had his head in the sand when this came along and now bitches whenever anyone criticises his methods and lies about other things. But what good would that do? It’s already happened? Will it change the vote at the next election? Doubtful.

I wasn’t singling put Americans btw? We in Britain are more alike with our brothers over the pond than many realise.... we just have bitching and moaning down to an art form now


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What’s very worrying though is we have just been informed the testing is generating false positives as well as false negatives. Feels like we are pissing in the wind as to whether we are any the wiser as to what is going on.

Britain wasn’t even testing it’s health workers until very recently (testing was reserved for patients only)


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Trump has not been perfect by any means. He has done some things right and some things wrong. Hence, the problem with trusting what China sent out. It lead his advisers/CDC astray in the beginning because the data was bunk. The problem with 3M was their distributors keep bumping Florida down the purchasing order because other places were paying cash. That's not right. The USA is not trying to buy all the mask stock up, just get what they need. 3M makes 1 million N95 masks a week.

For a dude whose country is run by Boris Johnson and a bunch of inbred welfare queens, you sure have a lot of opinions about our country. Trump is a fuckin moron, but your boy Boris makes him look like a goddamn Fulbright Scholar.

Only because there was none!