Posted on 05/07/2020 8:57:05 AM PDT by blam
The Chinese embassy to Canada on Monday claimed that a minor “contractual” issue caused a million Chinese N95 masks exported to Canada last month to be defective and useless.
The Chinese claimed the contractual issue has been addressed. Canadian officials were literally left speechless by the embassy’s breezy statement.
The huge shipment of masks in question was rejected by inspectors from the Canadian Health Ministry in the last week of April because they did not meet filtration standards.
The masks were actually built to the KN95 standard, a Chinese designation considered substandard by the United States but normally accepted as a substitute for N95 masks in Canada. The Health Ministry said the million masks it rejected were “non-compliant with specifications for health care settings” but might be usable for other purposes.
Chinese suppliers promised to replace the million defective masks and Canadian purchases of Chinese equipment continued on a massive scale, at tremendously inflated prices due to heavy global demand.
A few days before the defective mask shipment arrived in Canada, two Canadian cargo planes that were supposed to pick up medical equipment in China were bizarrely turned away because, according to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the airport in Shanghai would not allow them to remain on the ground long enough to load their cargo. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Trudeau’s account was “inaccurate” but offered no alternative explanation.
Not long before that, the city of Toronto recalled 60,000 Chinese surgical masks because they were so poorly made that they ripped apart when healthcare workers tried to use them.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa blew the million mask controversy off in a tweet on Monday:
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Does “baffle” mean the same thing as “bamboozle” here?
“Fool me once, shame on you...”
Not many in Canada found the unexpected 'reelection' of J Trudeau baffling. Thanks blam.
Suckers!
No refunds!
Perfect casting for that scene . . .
W.C. Fields: “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
If you give the Chinese an easier, less stringent option, they will always take it (KN95 vs. N95).
Canada, you always allowed that substitution before, so why not now?
They also probably infected them with Covid 19. does anybody trust China on PPE equipment or testing equipment.
The customer ordered defective masks? Leave it to Trudeau...
When you do business with the devil, be prepared to be taken for a ride you won’t like.
China is such a trash country. How a great portion of the world got on their knees for the commie scum is sickening.
That was the best scene in that movie :)
I’ve dealt with them on electronics manufacturing. They will substitute parts for cheaper ones that are “almost” as good (for very large values of almost), use cheaper circuit board material and leave out parts they think you don’t need. I expect that all manufacturing is similar: you need to specify things you would never think would need to be specified with a domestic manufacturer.
Yes it was. Just a good all around movie.
(Dolly and Hard Candy Christmas still gets me misty eyed.)
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