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For clarification -- who is "us"? Are you American, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean...?



Swiss. It's been months since I was following this story, but the machines were chinese (air freighted in, along with copious supplies of masks for the interim, by our flag carrier airline, which had plenty of spare capacity at the time) and I believe the textile source is german. Our virus response the last two months has been pitiful, but we were doing well in our first wave.

Even the north koreans seem to have bought some machines, judging by their propaganda photos. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907

As far as making cheaper than china, the following are old links for non-N95 masks, they may be stale:

Compare masks per month: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-...

with masks per day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWt-4YKBq4




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