There’s tons of available masks in China. N95 and kn95. What we have is a fucked up federal government that wouldn’t allow them in. Expect to see it again and again as governors say FU to the feds, the fda, and these bullshit rules.
Rules and regulations at the federal level are usually driven by financial interests. Happens all the time in EVERY industry. N95 mask is a US company, KN95 is a chinese company. The rules and regulations are set into place to protect a market/companies not the citizens.
Every country does this. Eurpoean Union is the king of locking markets.
https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media...filtering-facepiece-respirator-classes-tb.pdf
After reading the specs on these masks, would any country question the ability of any of them in fighting a pandemic?
This is absolutely not a US problem, it is absolutely not a president problem. It is a problem every single country in the world has at fighting to protect special interests. Our system does not have a switch to turn on and off the protectionism acts. You basically need politicians to stand up and say FU, sue me, which they are finally starting to do.
When you break down the basic function of a ventilator, you want to cry at the thought that a cell phone interfaced to some sensors and air pressure regulators can cost so much and take so long to produce. it is the ton of paperwork and quality, and redundancy to make sure it does not fail. We are in a state where six sigma quality will cost us way more lives than it will save.