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I know the Chinese government has been pushing the narrative that it was those European countries fault for buying the wrong product, but it's just not true. Ev

by makomk 7y ago

I know the Chinese government has been pushing the narrative that it was those European countries fault for buying the wrong product, but it's just not true. Everyone is perfectly OK with using non-medical industrial filtration masks under the circumstances. The reason that European countries have had to recall a bunch of Chinese masks is that they didn't meet the filtration standard they claimed to be made to, full stop. They let through substantially more particles than the standard allowed when tested. They also failed fit testing, which would make them unusable anyway.

blackrock 7y ago
So, your comment actually supports the narrative. These masks failed quality tests, but they were made by private manufacturers in China, that had no relation to the China government. However, because they are stamped, “Made in China”, then they tarnished China’s international image. And the European countries really didn’t help themselves here, when they did their media blitz, and claimed that the China-made masks were defective. Thereby insinuating that every single mask that is shipped out of China, is under the control and responsibility of the central China government. Then, the entire Twitterverse lit up in laughter as: “Ha ha! See, we told you so! China only makes piece-of-shit crap! Now, they are selling us crappy medical products too!”
- makomk 7y ago
  No it doesn't support that narrative. The claim in the comment I'm replying to is that the masks made by those private manufacturers weren't defective at all, and that the European purchasers went on an unfair "media blitz to complain about shoddy Chinese made products" when actually it was their fault for ordering the wrong kind of masks. That claim is completely and utterly false. The kind of mask they'd ordered would've worked perfectly well for their purpose if it was actually as described rather than a shoddy imitation that was, to quote the Dutch media reports, "some sort of FFP0.8 at best" instead of the roughly FFP2 it should've been.

by makomk 7y ago

blackrock 7y ago

So, your comment actually supports the narrative. These masks failed quality tests, but they were made by private manufacturers in China, that had no relation to the China government. However, because they are stamped, “Made in China”, then they tarnished China’s international image. And the European countries really didn’t help themselves here, when they did their media blitz, and claimed that the China-made masks were defective. Thereby insinuating that every single mask that is shipped out of China, is under the control and responsibility of the central China government. Then, the entire Twitterverse lit up in laughter as: “Ha ha! See, we told you so! China only makes piece-of-shit crap! Now, they are selling us crappy medical products too!”

makomk 7y ago
No it doesn't support that narrative. The claim in the comment I'm replying to is that the masks made by those private manufacturers weren't defective at all, and that the European purchasers went on an unfair "media blitz to complain about shoddy Chinese made products" when actually it was their fault for ordering the wrong kind of masks. That claim is completely and utterly false. The kind of mask they'd ordered would've worked perfectly well for their purpose if it was actually as described rather than a shoddy imitation that was, to quote the Dutch media reports, "some sort of FFP0.8 at best" instead of the roughly FFP2 it should've been.