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For clarification -- who is "us"? Are you American, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean...?

• 082349872349872 6y ago
  Swiss. It's been months since I was following this story, but the machines were chinese (air freighted in, along with copious supplies of masks for the interim, by our flag carrier airline, which had plenty of spare capacity at the time) and I believe the textile source is german. Our virus response the last two months has been pitiful, but we were doing well in our first wave. Even the north koreans seem to have bought some machines, judging by their propaganda photos. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907 As far as making cheaper than china, the following are old links for non-N95 masks, they may be stale: Compare masks per month: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-masks/gms-mask-operation-a-glimpse-into-the-factory-of-the-coronavirus-era-idUSKCN2262PZ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-... with masks per day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWt-4YKBq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWt-4YKBq4