Posted on 03/21/2020 12:43:24 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
French authorities impounded two lorries carrying some 130,000 masks to health workers in Britains embattled hospitals, following President Emmanuel Macrons pledge to requisition all stocks in his territory.
The move followed hot on the heels of French border guards seizing another heavy goods vehicle carrying hand sanitiser to Britain the day before. The incidents triggered a diplomatic spat between the two countries as Britains National Health Service (NHS) struggles against the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
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The new 100 Years War?
WW-III began with Operation Masterdom
in Vietnam
on September 13, 1945
I had ancestors fighting on both sides in the Norman Conquest, 1066 to 1075.
In the UK the distinction ceased to exist today, as the private health sector has made over nearly all its 8000 hospital beds, with staff, to the NHS for the duration of the pandemic:
Not when the in power government does it.
Those who make the rules/law can change the rules/law.
The only trade goods of real value are ammunition and firearms.
just like the crazies in the mid east,India& Pakistan,
France and England have been at each other forever.
Lot of wars, lot of mud thrown at each other.
Gotta love it,
Despite having personally led military against the French in his youth George Washington welcomed a French army to the Colonies ,without which aid there probably wouldn’t be a U.S. separate from England.And it was a France ruled by a king that sent that aid. It was after the Colonies became United States that the French embraced terrorism and murder as their temporary solution.
Naw, asset forfeiture. Perfectly legal .Widely practiced in the freedom -loving U.S.
” I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
For what it is worth, the UK death rate for confirmed cases is 4.3%. The US death rate for confirmed cases is 1.2%. In Canada, the death rate is about the same as ours.
Lower numbers for deaths per case, predominantly mean faster detected spread during the left side of the curve.
Except for that whole Holocaust thing.
I said WWI, pay attention.
If the Central Powers had won WWI, then there wouldn’t have been a Hitler.
My bad.
Thanks!
I get that, which is why i led with “for what it is worth.”
Good question and I'm pretty sure I know what the consensus answer here would be - especially if the masks were headed to Mexico.
Med personnel need masks to put on the sick and then to wear themselves to ensure any of them that may still get it don't infect each other and other patients.
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