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Every country in the world except South Korea, HK, China and Taiwan failed to recognise the importance of masks at the beginning only to later change their mind
by blub 6y ago
Every country in the world except South Korea, HK, China and Taiwan failed to recognise the importance of masks at the beginning only to later change their minds.
- ramphastidae 6y agoNo. They willfully misrepresented their importance so that civilians didn’t buy them before the hospitals could. They were unprepared to respond to the increase in demand due to their complete incompetence. Anyone using a shred of logic saw through the “masks don’t work” insanity.
- PicassoCTs 6y agoThere was a government organized massive-buy back of masks by china in the early stages of the pandemic via marshalled parallel traders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_trading_in_Hong_Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_trading_in_Hong_Kong Globalization came to bite the hand that easily gave production out of hand for single-use items.