I can't put my finger on this where I may have seen this foxy pattern before...
I assume there are exceptions made for appropriate officials and medical personnel, if adequate quarantine rues are followed, do the group attracting the crowd funding have access to this channel? Or drone based deliver perhaps (assuming they don't break the transport in/out rule despite not being manned so not presenting the same infection spread vector)?
I'd like to know the masks are going to go somewhere useful, rather than being blocked by the rules and distributed around officials instead of to hospital staff & patients and the public, before I donate.
Tweet in simplified Chinese: https://twitter.com/yajunwwz/status/1220632278688129029
With link to YouTube in Mandarin: https://youtu.be/N6jsuoxENPE
That's not obvious. Here are some countries with higher estimated GDP per capita than China:
Mexico (roughly equal)
Malaysia (10% more)
Romania (24% more)
Uruguay (69% more)
Is 3M a brand, or are you shipping three million masks?
https://www.amazon.com/3M-Particulate-Respirator-8210-Pack/d...
N95 masks need to be fit properly [1], and are very uncomfortable for daily use.
Surgical masks are a good compromise for going out in public, and mostly protect others from the mask-wearer. It's more important to practise good hygiene to avoid infection [2].
[1] https://www.osha.gov/video/respiratory_protection/fittesting...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/health/coronavirus-surgic...
Under this model, if everyone panics and wears masks to prevent themselves from getting sick, the spread of the disease will be crippled because everyone's wearing masks and people who are sick can't infect anyone else. It's a great idea.
This isn't really different from the herd immunity model of vaccination, where a lot of individuals getting vaccinated return a huge bonus to society in the form of herd immunity. If herd immunity were the only benefit, would we still want people to get vaccinated? Of course, that's why it's supposed to be mandatory.
I also went to tmall.com, Alibaba’s Chinese online marketplace, and it appears they are in stock too:
https://list.tmall.com/search_product.htm?q=%BF%DA%D5%D6n95&...
Edit: What the hell with downvotes on a stated fact?
Going to call bullshit on the claim that they're sold out in the US.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/public-should-...
(I checked five European papers from different countries, then five from African countries. It's on the homepage on all of them.)
* The hospitals in Wuhan are at absolute maximum capacity. they are lumping any fever cases (e.g. flu) patients with potential coronavirus patients in the same room.
* People with mild symptoms are sent home due to capacity, they are instructed to be quarantined at home unless symptoms get worse
* Despite reports, surgical masks are completely sold out in China, my dad is asking me to send him 3M (the brand) masks from abroad.
* Even hospitals are low on surgical masks for staff. Each nurse is given one or two masks per day, but per regulation, they needed to replace the mask every 3 hours.
* A wider scale locked down went in to effect in Wuhan this morning, forbidding anybody from entering or leaving on any roads, rail, water or flight.
* Domestic news are filled with non-sense, top 3 news today are praising Xi's CNY speech, which has exactly zero word mentioning the pandemic or Wuhan.
[Edit] One more thing,
* This coronavirus is potentially deadlier than SARS. Most of the 25 deaths are from the original 47 cases that was reported a few weeks ago.