The official advice regarding masks seems to be don't need it unless you're sick.
I mean the first problem with this statement is that you don't actually know that you're sick. Then if you look at China and Korea and Hong Kong and all these countries that seem to be doing a good job at containing this virus, every single person is wearing a mask. Not just people on the street but politicians, reports, scientists and doctors etc.
Are they wrong? Are they all just overly paranoid? Do we have a right to judge when they've managed to contain this virus?
Are the advice to not wear masks just because there is a shortage of masks and that if there wasn't a shortage we should all wear one? If this is true, is that not absolutely crazy? The Chinese were able to supply masks for every one of their 1 billion+ ppl and we've had 4 months and not been able to find 30 million masks for our population?
@nutella9: I assume everyone has a brain and can think and not brainwashed. Be objective and stand in the middle and face the fact. CCP is evil for sure. But do not blame CCP for this case. You need to read from both sides to see what actually happened.
As far as I know, not only the 2 Chinese real estates bought masks in Jan/Feb. Chinese people/companies outside of China started to buy masks, medical gowns in almost every country including Africa because the doctors in Wuhan hospitals were screaming for resources and they had to publish their demands on social media. CCP blocked official channels and said there were enough resources. All Chinese in other countries started to bought medical resources and donated to hospitals directly. This is not organized by the Chinese government. There is another more interesting long story afterwards…
France has ordered 1 billion masks from China. I am wondering why can't we do it? It is a government failure and they try to divert focus to someone else.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-france/fr…