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New Report Says Up to 70% of KN95 Masks Imported From China Fail Safety Standards
www.sciencealert.com ^ | 25 SEPTEMBER 2020 | GABBY LANDSVERK

Posted on 09/25/2020 10:16:03 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Spktyr

Thanks. I’ll look into it but from a quick google they seem kind of pricey for my usage.

I can get 50 KN95 masks on eBay for $14-$19. free shipping.

They are thrown away after going into a store or two so I’ll deal with the loop breakage.


21 posted on 09/25/2020 11:25:52 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: brianr10

Same here. They are for appearances. This link says P95/100 is $7 to $67 a piece. I’m not paying a lot for this muffler!

https://www.zoro.com/kbmt/p95-mask/


22 posted on 09/25/2020 11:29:41 AM PDT by conservative98
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23 posted on 09/25/2020 11:39:43 AM PDT by Pollard (You can’t be for “defunding the police” and against “vigilantism” at the same time.)
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To: conservative98

Try checking at body shop supply stores in person.


24 posted on 09/25/2020 11:41:22 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: All

Americans better WISE UP/
Key swamp demons were making fortunes when they allowed US companies in a number of industries including pharma,(asprin.vitamins, masks) and computer; and electrical as well metal fabrication components even bicycles relocate their factories in China . To the point where China was our sole supplier. The money the CCP has now comes from US .If we play our Chinese checkers right we can really turn things around for the better not only here but in China as well.


25 posted on 09/25/2020 12:17:57 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Red Badger

Fearpers gonna weep with sorrow over further proof masks are useless. Reason # 1257990.


26 posted on 09/25/2020 12:43:59 PM PDT by AnxiouslyWaiting
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To: Spktyr

Prolly should have been a bit more specific as obviously the general public can’t buy weapon systems to which you alluded.

In general, the chinese crap made for public consumption is junk; i.e. lost count long ago of the various automotive components that are trash fresh out of the box.

Bottom line, we need to quit financing our own demise.


27 posted on 09/25/2020 1:01:58 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: mosesdapoet

Yep.... can’t be stated enough.

Bring manufacturing back to the US and watch the economy launch like a rocket.

As a side note, allow absolutely noone that off-shored our infrastructure nowhere near the rebuilding effort as they’ve already sold US out once before.

Damn traitors, the almighty dollar is not that important.


28 posted on 09/25/2020 1:08:37 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Spktyr
True, but there are P100 organic vapor cartridges out there and I don’t recall there being any N95 ones.

An organic vapor element on an N95 particulate respirator would be pointless. Too limited in application.

29 posted on 09/25/2020 2:15:16 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Cold Heart; dynoman

I did not know that.


30 posted on 09/25/2020 3:29:55 PM PDT by caver (Somwo)
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To: LastDayz

Hard drives are a consumer good that requires extremely high quality precision micromachining and finishing, absolutely sterile clean room manufacture, and high reliability/precision electronics. China makes more of them than anyone else, and again, they are of no worse quality and longevity than the last three or four generations of drive that were made pre-China. If you can make decent quality hard drives, you have all the technology and ability you need to make any mechanical or electromechanical consumer good with high quality. Chances are pretty good that unless your computer has an SSD or is really old, the hard drive was made in China.

It’s not that China can’t make consumer goods for public consumption that aren’t junk, because clearly they *can.* The thing is, they don’t unless someone pays them to or they have some other incentive; China doesn’t have a culture of “make everything as excellent as you can just for pride of workmanship” as the US more or less generally used to.

The big problems with Chinese manufacture at this point:
1. Buying/contracting companies in the US and elsewhere not willing to pay more for better product out of Chinese factories. They just want *some* product at as low a price as possible and could care less about anything else.
2. Buying/contracting companies don’t pay for local QC checks or perform their own.

While yes, we need to stop feeding money to the Chinese, we should keep the above two points in mind as we bring manufacturing back to the US. A lot of the people that think points one and two are acceptable are still in charge of companies and we will still get crap product from them. Remember, companies have produced crap in the US as well.


31 posted on 09/25/2020 11:46:39 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: LastDayz

A few cases in point of bad US product quality due to the kind of idiots thinking unsupervised absolutely-lowest-dollar Chinese production is a good idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_RoFTWKAoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bULArrKs4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYf1SXBY_E4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5NK0M6HE3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Ul5duLldM


32 posted on 09/25/2020 11:58:53 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: LastDayz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ65wbjq6t0


33 posted on 09/26/2020 12:00:51 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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