Posted on 04/25/2020 6:06:11 AM PDT by george76
More than a dozen countries on four continents have recently disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment. The problems range from test kits tainted with the coronavirus to medical garments contaminated with insects.
Chinese authorities have refused to take responsibility for the defective equipment
...
Slovakian Prime Minister Igor Matovič disclosed that more than a million coronavirus tests supplied by China for a cash payment of €15 million ($16 million) were inaccurate and unable to detect Covid-19. "We have a ton of tests and no use for them," he said. "They should just be thrown straight into the Danube."
...
millions of pieces of medical equipment purchased from China by European governments to combat the coronavirus pandemic are defective and unusable.
Since that report, more than a dozen countries on four continents have disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment. The problems range from test kits tainted with the coronavirus to medical garments contaminated with insects.
...
Austria. On April 6, the Ministry of Economic Affairs confirmed that 500,000 masks ordered from China for use in South Tyrol were "completely unusable" because they did not meet safety standards
...
Czech Republic. On March 23, the Czech news site iRozhlas reported that 300,000 coronavirus test kits delivered by China had an error rate of 80%.
...
Today, while battling the Wuhan Virus consumes the attention of our government agencies and health care systems, we should not lose sight of the foundational strategic challenge confronting the West in the emerging post-globalization era: We are in a long twilight competition with the Chinese communist regime, a struggle we cannot escape, whether we like it or not. Now is the time to wake up, develop a new strategy for victory, and to move forward
(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...
1. Stop buying medical equipment and pharmaceutical drugs from China
2. Move medical equipment and drug manufacturing back to your home country.
China does not care if you can detect the virus. China does not care if they can detect the virus. Plenty of pits and crematories in China.
3. A nice big fat import tariff.
With all the crap that has come out of China over the years, from defective drywall to tainted toothpaste to toxic pet food to now, when they are arguably responsibly for unleashing what may well be the worst pandemic to strike the earth in 100 years, defective medical equipment - from masks contaminated with the same virus they’re supposed to prevent the spread of to defective test kits, again contaminated with the virus they’re supposed to detect - why would any sane person do business with the Chinese.
Oh, I forgot - following the money at any price. That’s why we do it.
I still blame Richard Nixon.
Im sure the CCP has corona infected people coughing and sneezing in masks they send to other countries
Is this supposed to be news? China has been flooding the world with cheap, defective crap for decades. Most of us have been happy enough to save lots of cash and just by more stuff when the current stuff breaks.
Those chickens have now come home to roost.
Paging Gavin Newsom
I doubt the defective PPE from China just started showing up this year.
How long would the virus live on these masks? I bought some a month ago but have not used.
Canada Rejects One Million ‘Non-Compliant’ Masks From China
https://nypost.com/2020/04/24/canada-rejects-one-million-non-compliant-masks-from-china/
LMAO! I love it! Should anyone, anywhere, EVER AGAIN have any doubt about the Chinese crap and subversiveness!!
A couple of days at room temperature on a hard smooth surface a few hours on a porous surface.
Newsom Masks $1 Billion Deal with Chinese Company
Frontpagemag ^ | 04/24/2020 | Lloyd Billingsley
Posted on 4/24/2020, 9:54:11 AM by DFG
“We’ve been competing against other states, against other nations, against our own federal government for PPE — coveralls, masks, shields, N95 masks — and we’re not waiting around any longer. And we’re no longer interested in the progress that we were seeing in the past.”
That was California governor Gavin Newsom in an April 7 MSNBC appearance with Rachel Maddow. As Newsom added, “In the last 48 hours we have secured –through a consortia of nonprofits and a manufacturer here in the state of California – upwards of 200 million masks on a monthly basis that we’re confident we can supply the needs of the state of California, potentially the needs of other western states.”
As it happened, the manufacturer wasn’t exactly “here in the state of California.” The manufacturer was BYD, “Build Your Dreams,” a Chinese company not known for making personal protective equipment. Newsom wasn’t revealing details of the $1 billion deal, which as John Myers of the Los Angeles Times noted, “will cost taxpayers 30 percent more than the governor’s January budget allotted for infectious diseases for the whole fiscal year.”
Good news .....your $485 Million pre payment check cleared.
Yep. Anything, even profiting our enemies, as long as we can save a buck on a pair of flip flops.
We’re all guilty of it. But we can all do something about it.
For instance, Harbor Freight carries a line of hand tools that are virtually identical to Snap-On brand, right down to using the same font in the forgings. Certainly, much of what they carry is Chinese-made, but I will gladly spend the extra money to get the real thing (or at least a product not made there) so they don’t profit so much on their long-standing practice of outright stealing of intellectual property.
[For instance, Harbor Freight carries a line of hand tools that are virtually identical to Snap-On brand, right down to using the same font in the forgings. Certainly, much of what they carry is Chinese-made, but I will gladly spend the extra money to get the real thing (or at least a product not made there) so they don’t profit so much on their long-standing practice of outright stealing of intellectual property.]
I misspoke. I might buy Snap-On from a private party, but never from the truck. They’re just like RoomsToGo, a finance company that uses their product as a vehicle for their real purpose.
” Plenty of pits and crematories in China”
Before China was even called out for lying about person to person contagion, which they knew since December when
Taiwan told them about that, they continued to lie.
And during that time crematoriums all around Wuhan were going day and night burning the many bodies of their people in Wuhan who died from their Chinese virus.
It was also reported that they dug giant pits and buried many bodies in them.
Reports also were coming out that there were over 40,000 thousand cases in Wuhan during a very short period.
We all know that there were 8 doctors in that area that were reporting about the severity of the virus in Wuhan, and they all disappeared. One that we knew the name of died from their virus.
The others were never found, and the CCP shut the local journalists up and would not let them report, and made all foreign journalists leave.
All that China has done is because of President Trump.
For decades China was allowed to steal intellectual information and maintain a skewed trade balance, all in their favor.
U.S. companies moved to China in droves during the Obama administration, manufacturing of all sorts including medicine and medical supplies, and Obama assured China and USA citizens that they would never come back.
Trump started early in his administration bringing much of this back, and levied heavy tariffs to balance the trade deficit.
These and other facts are the only reason anyone can say all of this current crisis is “Trump’s fault”
I have more to say about all of this, but my puter is very slow at this time.
More later, and please add anything any of you know to continue the bringing out of these facts.
SaveFerris, FYI.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.