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MESSICO

Mexican factory making ventilators for the US is shut down by government after it refused to sell the machines to local hospitals

American-owned Smiths Medical plant in the northern border town of Baja, California, that was making ventilators, was shut down Friday

Gov. Jaimie Bonilla closed down the plant after the company refused to sell the machines to Mexican hospitals to treat coronavirus patients

Bonilla said the firm had continued to operate its local factory as an ‘essential service’, after non-essential plants were ordered closed to combat the pandemic

But Bonilla ordered the plant shuttered because he argued it was providing no such essential service to Mexicans

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8213037/Mexico-closes-plant-making-ventilators-sold-hospitals-countries.html

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UK

Self-isolation and contactless deliveries are nothing new: Britons adopted similar measures to help prevent the spread of plague in York during the 17th century, stone inscription reveals

Plague struck the city of York in the year 1604, forcing measures in response
Afflicted city-folk left the city to isolate in wooden lodges on a moor to the south
A marker stone served as a ‘contactless’ drop-off point for food for the sick
Coins as payment were left in a bowl-like indent full of cleaning water or vinegar
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8190193/How-social-distancing-hand-sanitising-practised-17th-century.html

[justa-hairyape]

There is that giant sucking sound again. Lol. How is that moving your plant to Mexico or China to utilize slave labor working out for you ?

[Paul R.]

Geez, you’d think they could work out something sensible like 30% of the units going to Mexico...