China in need of surgical masks as Thailand set to control prices

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China in need of surgical masks as Thailand set to control prices

 

Workers produce masks at the Thai Hospital Product Company Ltd. factory in Bangkok on January 30, 2020. – A Thai surgical mask factory, producing 10 million masks a month, increased working hours to cope with the rising demand following an outbreak of SARS-like virus in China, with their product exported mostly to US and Europe the rest sold on the domestic market. (Photo by Jonathan KLEIN / AFP)

 

As Thailand is about to impose control on prices and distribution of surgical masks and hand sanitizers, China said Monday it urgently needed medical equipment and surgical masks as the death toll from a new coronavirus jumped above 360.

 

The 57 new deaths confirmed Monday was the single-biggest daily increase since the virus was detected late last year in the central city of Wuhan, where it is believed to have jumped from animals at a market into humans.

 

The virus has since spread to more than 24 countries despite many governments imposing unprecedented travel bans on people coming from China. The World Health Organization has declared the crisis a global health emergency, and the first foreign death from the virus was confirmed in the Philippines on Sunday.

 

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[dcnx]

The only thing that Thailand is set to do is get on their knees and prostrate themselves in front of China.
 

They can’t stop people from driving on the sidewalks or price gouging durian. Pretending they are going to something about masks during a pandemic is laughable.

[CelticBhoy]

They can't resist an opportunity to big themselves up . . . . ????

A bit of 'short-man syndrome', methinks.

[neeray]

21 minutes ago, CelticBhoy said:

They can't resist an opportunity to big themselves up . . . . ????

A bit of 'short-man syndrome', methinks.

A common trait of insecure leaders. There's a taller one elsewhere that likes to "big himself up too".

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Workers produce masks at the Thai Hospital Product Company Ltd. factory in Bangkok on January 30, 2020

All suited up but..... no gloves while handling someones face mask??????

Eeeew!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Perhaps if the Thai mask company cited in the OP photo wasn't exporting most of its masks to the U.S. and Europe, and instead was selling them here domestically, we wouldn't have such a HUGE shortage...

 

That said, their masks appear to be the cheap drugstore variety, not the N95 reslirator types. So limited value for the coronavirus in terms of protecting people from catching the virus.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Perhaps if the Thai mask company cited in the OP photo wasn't exporting most of its masks to the U.S. and Europe, and instead was selling them here domestically, we wouldn't have such a HUGE shortage...

 

That said, their masks appear to be the cheap drugstore variety, not the N95 reslirator types. So limited value for the coronavirus in terms of protecting people from catching the virus.

 

[DrTuner]

Motherland needs masks, send them all there. The citizens of the vassal state can eat cake.

[RotBenz8888]

If the mask doesn't protect against virus, at least it could help to save face.

[zydeco]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

China said Monday it urgently needed medical equipment and surgical masks as the death toll from a new coronavirus jumped above 360.

Cannot be true!  Wumao on message boards across the world have assured us that this is all panic and lies, that everything is just fine in China.

[DLock]

They make masks by hand?

 

Surely there is a much efficient, sanitary and scalable way to make masks?

[zydeco]

3 minutes ago, DLock said:

They make masks by hand?

 

Surely there is a much efficient, sanitary and scalable way to make masks?

If the Chinese tourists don't get you, your Thai made face masks will.

[mickey rat]

The labor is so cheap here that they are actually made by hand! Oh well, at least during break they can go outside for some fresh 2.5PM dust and a bowl of noodles loaded with msg. Life is good. ????

[DLock]

Them Chinese entrepreneurs. Cornering the market on Face masks.

 

Can't blame them. Probably got a couple of boxes of bodybags in there as well...

 

 

[Ventenio]

What if we find out the super secret lab was created by 3M!!!!  Decades ago, before the internet, people trusted 3M.  Then they did that whole teflon mess I think....anyhow, I'm sure it's not really 3M.  In China, Microsoft is as similar to Microsoft as a monkey to jupiter.  

[overherebc]

Seems S Korea has now detailed punishment for anyone, shops? hoarding supplies. Max 1.5 x 3 days supply. Two years or 42,000 dollars maximum sentence.

Hyundai closing a lot of production lines because of parts shortage from China.