Posted on 04/25/2020 8:53:07 AM PDT by blam
Earlier this month, we warned that Chinese companies were flooding Europe with shoddy medical supplies, including defective personal protective equipment (PPE).
Unfortunately given the mad rush for supplies as governments around the world scramble to buy them from any supplier available, no matter how shady, there hasn’t been enough time to discerningly inspect the equipment, and many dangerous lapses have accrued.
And while stories about defective equipment on the Continent have been appearing with increasing frequency, this incident from Spain is particularly alarming: Breitbart has reported that more than 1,000 Spanish healthcare workers have gone into isolation after wearing faulty medical masks bought from China.
As Spain moves ever-closer to the May 9 reopening date, the country ordered 400,000 masks from the Chinese to help protect front-line medical workers.
Unfortunately, many of the masks were defective, forcing the workers to undergo testing and enter quarantine following being repeatedly exposed to the virus. The mass exposure will likely result in many testing positive.
The masks were purchased by Spain from a shady Chinese firm called Garry Galaxy; they were reportedly used for about ten days before it was discovered that they were defective.
Spanish newspaper El País reported that the masks have been recalled, yet as some are still believed to be in circulation.
“There are people who worked the whole day using a mask that offers ten minutes of protection,” said the General Council of Nursing Associations. Spanish healthcare workers have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus. Medical staff represent some 15% of all infections in Spain, where at least 31,000 Spanish healthcare workers have contracted coronavirus (though some say the number is likely significantly higher due to deliberate undercounting).
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Nuking china is the only answer.
China is just compounding the prank they pulled on the rest of the world.
Fu Manchu is alive and well and dwelling in Wuhan, China.
The yellow peril is becoming very much a real thing. And it reflects badly on all persons of Chinese origin. Only a few criminal geniuses managed to apply a tarbrush to ALL Orientals.
Vs how many have been laid off due to no money coming in and no work for them to perform. While the execs are getting bonuses (Denver Health).
How can a mask only offer “minutes of protection”?
I wonder how Gavin Nobrain’s purchase of 1 billion dollars of California taxpayer money will work out.
We just got a virus from China so let’s buy masks from China to protect ourselves. There are a lot of stupid people out there.
If these “faulty” masks, which must have passed a rough eyeball test before being put on, worked so poorly, what does that tell us about the effectiveness of the ‘ersatz masks for everyone’ pushed by government?
The very scumbags that deliberately inflicted the world with death can be trusted not to sneeze and cough into these masks they sell us. WHF is wrong with people
Sabotaged critical supplies.
Isn’t that an act of war?
Asking for a friend...
Sounds as feckless as our CDC’s contaminated testing kits at the beginning of this nightmare. Do not trust anything made in China!
Isn’t this rather a reflection of Marxism/Leninism and not the ethnic group of China per se. Taiwan hasn’t acted in such a hideous manner.
It’s the bloody hammer & sickle peril.
China administering a double whammy. They are our friends.
No more kung pao virus?/s
[[reported that more than 1,000 Spanish healthcare workers have gone into isolation after wearing faulty medical masks bought from China....
the country ordered 400,000 masks from the Chinese to help protect front-line medical workers. ...
Unfortunately, many of the masks were defective, forcing the workers to undergo testing and enter quarantine following being repeatedly exposed to the virus.]]
Now wait just a pea pickin minute-
i thought masks don’t protect the wearer?
The U.S. should economically stick it to the ChiComs until they collapse like the former Soviet Union.
U.S businessmen and politicians who continue to collude with the ChiComs should also be dealt with.
There are lots of stories about faulty Chinese made masks. Have there been masks made in China that weren’t faulty?
“U.S businessmen and politicians who continue to collude with the ChiComs should also be dealt with.”
Biden is one of them.
And that a-hole from Cali gave a $Billion contract to the Chicoms for masks?
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