Taiwan to donate 10 million masks to virus-affected countries

Focus Taiwan ^ | 04/01/2020 01:55 PM | Wang Cheng-chung

[VAFreedom]

Taipei, April 1 (CNA) Taiwan will donate 10 million face masks to countries that are being seriously affected by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Wednesday.

In a speech delivered at the Presidential Office, Tsai said Taiwan has increased its production of face masks, giving the country the ability to provide masks to countries that are experiencing major escalations in the COVID-19 contagion.

On Tuesday, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs announced Taiwan's daily surgical mask output has hit 13 million.

[VAFreedom]

it is not from china so it is not april fools

[TheCipher]

They increased production here back in January. There is stil a limit of how many you can buy a week ( can get them online 9 masks every 2 weeks ) ,so there are enough to export.

[Leaning Right]

Stories like this one need to be emphasized more. This virus is not a Chinese virus. It’s a ChiCom virus.

The Taiwanese are fellow victims. And they are legitimately trying to help.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Now, more than ever, we need to help Taiwan against PRC.

[BobL]

Yea, while the CDC and FDA were being wined and dined by China in January and the FluBros were telling Trump that only people with slanty eyes get the virus, Taiwan went to Germany and bought 6 large machines used to make masks.

Seems that they got those machines humming along quite well now and are producing far more than they need for their own citizens.

[Travis McGee]

Anybody can make these in a few minutes from stuff at home. Ain't pretty, but they work. If no HEPA cloth from HVAC filters or vacuum cleaner bags are available, you can use paper towels with a coffee filter in between.

[Vigilanteman]

I visited Taiwan for a business trip while working in Japan in a previous life. It is a delightful little country with its own flag, currency and national anthem. Our hosts had learned that I loved history and had a ticket to the national museum (much of it spirited out of the mainland in 1949) and a phone number to call for a Japanese speaking driver to take me there when I finished checking in to the hotel.

Even the local 7-11 had the merchandise arranged very similar to what I was used to in Japan. And since there was one around the corner from the hotel and I'd forgotten to pack shaving cream, I bought a tube there and peeled off the Chinese language sticker to find Japanese underneath.

To my delight, locals who couldn't understand enough English to point me in the right direction could often understand Japanese.

[SunkenCiv]

The University of California can suck it. Kung Flu ping.

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[a little elbow grease]

I thought, looking at the picture, that guy on the left was not putting it on quite right.