Posted on 02/18/2020 6:59:42 PM PST by Hojczyk
“We make 7 percent of the [global] mask supply,” Bowen explained on Steve Bannon’s “War Room: Pandemic” podcast. “China has steadily been taking away our mask business. In a few years, it will all be owned by China – they sell the mask for less than I can buy the material.
“America’s hospitals want to save money. The way America’s hospitals buy products – it’s all rigged. GPO, group purchasing organization, bid these things out. They’re looking for the low price, that’s China. That’s why all this happening.”
The United States is also entirely reliant on Chinese manufacturing for nearly all pharmaceutical drugs, generic prescriptions and over-the-counter product supplements and medicines – including penicillin and vitamin C. If US-China tensions worsen, China could cut off antibiotic exports, throwing our hospitals into turmoil.
Bannon, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump, warns these foreign dependencies are at the heart of what it means to be made in America.
“In order to have a secure nation, it’ more than just tanks and soldiers and missiles, there is health security. We are now paying the true cost of the China price, with this just-in-time inventory,” he said. “This globalization. It wasn’t just about taking jobs, which is bad enough, it wasn’t just about stripping our factories out of here. It’s left us exposed as a nation.
“We are now supplicants to our enemies. That is unacceptable and I know that is one of the reasons why Donald Trump is president of the United States.”
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Might help keep some from spreading it to other folks’ eyes via sneezes...
So an N95 mask is effective to a large degree. And it takes a suitable dose of a virus to make one sick. A healthy person's immune system can handle a certain amount of viruses.
The psychological effect of a mask is also helpful. Says to others “stay away”. Reminds you to not touch your face. Keeps you from grabbing one of those free food samples from Costco that people have been slobbering over.
I've always hated those food stands blocking the aisle. As a matter of principle I have never taken a sample.
Now when they ask I tell them “Take a sample that other people have hovered over, talked to you about, in the height of Flu season? No thanks!”
I was listening to some guy that was a former bigshot in bio-hazards. He said that the Fed has a LOT of supplies that can be distributed.
However, he said the problem is on the local level. Response plans are on a city/county level. Some of them have decent plans, and will call upon and get the Federal help. (Beds, masks, oxygen, etc.)
Others don’t have much of a plan, and will be too late to the party.
The best-prepared communities have plans to shut down schools and turn them into hospitals and containment wards. The ones that activate that plan the soonest will get the best equipment.
An aside. I live in Washington state, where a huge earthquake and tsunami will someday repeat itself. Several of the coastal communities have plans. Several of them have said something like “Two of the three schools in town will be able to make it to high ground. We have plans to relocate the third school in ten years. However, there are two retirement homes in town with people of limited mobility. The town’s resources are limited, and we will be focusing on the schools.”
These types of events will overwhelm the system. Choices will need to be made at the higher levels. However, we can all make our own individual choices and plans.
Whether it be a virus or an earthquake, I am planning on being one of those that can wait for help, rather than being the first guy that is begging for a bottle of water or a mask or roll of toilet paper.
My wife was just telling my kids of the extremes I took at Y2K. (I had forgotten some of them - yes - looking back I wa a bit crazy perhaps). The kids (they were too young then) just laughed. I understand that.
I also said - “I’m glad you can laugh. And I laugh too. But at least I was fairly prepared, and not any harm done. And I hope that I can look back on this and laugh. But, the stores are empty of masks. Amazon, Walmart, etc. is out. But - I’ve got 50 of them. Most are a few years old - but they are still good. Here - take five just in case.”
“We spend thousands of dollars a year on car, home, medical and business insurance. Hundreds of dollars on fire and first aid gear. Buying some masks and other supplies and having them on hand is nothing. And with it all - we hope that it is wasted money.”
Oh - I forgot about the money I have spent on guns and ammo. Except that also provides some recreational benefit! BTW - BLOAT!
Plus Tyvek suits with hoods, overboots, ducktape to seal, a litter box with diluted bleach, a lawn sprayer with diluted bleach, double gloved kit removal and good infection control practices. A red zone in the garage with a high intensity UV sterilizer light and green zone inside.
Don’t ask me if I have this stuff. (I do) With +/- 8 billion host incubators a global pandemic is inevitable. When it hits (this may or may not be it yet) getting what you need to be safe will be impossible.
The virus is suspended in moisture droplets. It does not float free. Those droplets do not pass a N95. I second the Rappaport is an idiot comments.
It’s apparently a bit of a roulette as to whether you get a mild case (most likely) or a severe one (less likely). But advanced age, Asian genetics and ill health push the odds against you.
And unless you’re out in Podunk, I imagine it is likely coming to you sometime next winter. Still, the longer you can duck it the more likely vaccines, treatments and mutations can work in your favor.
So the big thing is to avoid being an ‘early adopter’!
What a job!
BAD, bring manufacturing back to America.
Get an ozone generator as well!
It does float free. But if like the typical flu virus, only about 4% is less than the 0.3 microns that a N95 lets through. Notice that the hype against the N95 mask (for use by the public) is often associated with a comment such as “An N95 mask can be helpful to a doctor or people taking care of an infected person.”
So they are not very effective - unless you are a doctor.
(They are trying to keep a supply available for the medical profession!) Which - may make sense.
Have one. That list is the basics for pandemic.
A big thing is the donning and doffing of the PPE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6F61J93FvE
A million masks ? If they are the cooled more expensive version, they last 5 days. If they are the cheap surgeon mask version, they last a few hours. We need billions of masks. Every single person would need a dozen to get by a month with limited quarantine. Do the math lol.
Medical people really should not rely on the N95. It’s only meant to lessen the chance of catching the virus. 80 % greater chance of not catching it. Free floating virals can get through. If you work in a highly dense viral environment, you need N100. This is why healthcare workers are dropping like flies in China. That and earlier lack of eye protection.
The best thing it does is remind you to not your face.
Very useful clip—thanks!
Thanks!
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