> I hope your friend realizes that this is clear-cut racial/ethnicity-based discrimination. That is absolutely orthogonal to business requirements to be honest

> I hope your friend realizes that this is clear-cut racial/ethnicity-based discrimination. That is absolutely orthogonal to business requirements to be honest. Especially when you need to establish production of anything as primitive as N95s. Of course you can send airplanes all around the world for them (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-at-least-two-canada-chartered-planes-return-from-china-without-medical/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-at-least-tw...) but when they will return empty, that thin reasoning layer will vaporize almost immediately.