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langwadt:

--- Quote from: wraper on March 24, 2020, 06:12:57 pm ---Say one man has food, another man has water, both in scarce amount. If they keep them for their own consumption only, both men will die.

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say one man has a car with 4 wheels, another man has a car with no wheels, should the first give two wheels to the other so they can both have a car with two wheels?
Koen:
Ho wow yes what an excellent comparison ho my god we are all seeing it in a new light now.


To add substance to this post, here's a french article about a side-effect of this "national confiscation" : french distributor of medical goods stopped importing masks from China because they would have been confiscated on arrival anyway.
https://www.la-croix.com/Economie/France/Coronavirus-course-contre-montre-Robe-Medical-fournir-masques-2020-03-22-1201085406
wraper:

--- Quote from: Koen on March 24, 2020, 06:43:03 pm ---To add substance to this post, here's a french article about a side-effect of this "national confiscation" : french distributor of medical goods stopped importing masks from China because they would have been confiscated on arrival anyway.

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Even before you saying this I thought something like this could happen.
langwadt:

--- Quote from: Koen on March 24, 2020, 06:43:03 pm ---Ho wow yes what an excellent comparison ho my god we are all seeing it in a new light now.


To add substance to this post, here's a french article about a side-effect of this "national confiscation" : french distributor of medical goods stopped importing masks from China because they would have been confiscated on arrival anyway.
https://www.la-croix.com/Economie/France/Coronavirus-course-contre-montre-Robe-Medical-fournir-masques-2020-03-22-1201085406

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I see, that kind of confiscation. I imagined something like the French government/organisations having "first right of refusal" before it could be sold to anyone else

james_s:
I don't see what the problem is, they're giving away free masks, so what? If they didn't offer them then someone else would chastise them for hoarding excess masks. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, some people are just impossible to please.

The mask craze is stupid anyway, wearing a mask may offer some marginal degree of prevention from spreading the disease if the wearer is already sick, but it's unlikely to protect you from others. From the perspective of something the size of a virus is a mesh of gigantic gaping holes.
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