China hoarded some countries’ inventory of masks and cleaner as the pandemic was ramping up.
China is Big A&&hole
On that last, lets link our HK friend who really got that rolling:
7s vidclip, language warning.
Love that guy. Hope he hasnt been disappeared.
There were pictures all over Twitter of Chinese in big box stores on the West Coast buying up pallet loads of masks, gloves, sanitizer which were then shipped to China. Same thing happened in Australia.
The CCP knew how bad this was going to be and stripped the rest of the world of PPE.
We need a stockpile of this stuff to last at least a couple of months AND domestic manufacturing so we can quickly ramp up and replace from a RELIABLE source.